All right. Yes. So it's my great pleasure today to introduce Camille Gentles-Pierre. Dr. Camille Gentles-Pierre is a professor of communication studies at Roger Williams University. Her areas of expertise include black feminism, critical race studies, and Caribbean post-colonial studies.  She has written and edited several books including romance with voluptuousness, Caribbean women, and thick bodies in the U.S. Her work has also appeared in academic journals such as Women's Studies Quarterly, The International Journal of Cultural Studies, and Feminism and Psychology. Dr. Gentles-Pierre is committed to creating spaces in the wider community that amplify and uplift African-descended women and girls. She co-founded the Collaborative for the Research on Black Women and Girls, which creates restorative and healing spaces for black women and girls globally. She's also a faculty fellow with the New England Board of Higher Education, where she co-created and directs the North Star Collective to promote reparative justice and uplift BIPOC faculty. Welcome, Camille. Thank you so much for being here. Thank you, Susan, and thank you to the board of Open Education Conference for having me. I am feeling a whole lot of things. I'm excited. I am honored. I'm humbled to be closing out what has been a very inspiring and energizing conference. I want to start by way of introduction by saying that I am a Black woman. I'm living in the United States, but I am originally from Jamaica, the so-called Third World, and I am raising a little, well, not little anymore, a 12-year-old Black girl who is smart and wonderful and in every way, and also 12. I'm married to and I have a partner who is a Black man living in the United States, and so racism, there hasn't been a day in the United States really. It hasn't been a day really since I've been born that racism hasn't shaped my experiences, whether it's in Jamaica or in the United States. It just looks a little bit different depending on where you are, and so I am invested in racial justice. I'm invested in racial justice overall and I'm specifically invested in racial justice in higher education. I am committed to fostering equitable environments for Black people, for brown people, and for other people of color who are in the academy. I am committed to creating spaces that affirm the identities and experiences of those who have been made invisible in society because of their stories. I am committed to creating and curating spaces that cultivate the capacity of racially dominant people to be self-reflexive of their own racial positionalities, and I also deeply believe that the mission of higher education is not only to disseminate the material, but is to equip and inspire students to question and transform racial hierarchies. It's to cultivate their potential to be agents of racial justice, and I also believe that open education has a real opportunity to support this work for racial justice. It's commitment to separating knowledge and information from capitalist structures and its desire to pull students into the creative processes of teaching and learning. Those provide very fertile ground for dismantling racial oppressions in higher education. However, to be effective as a tool for racial justice, I also believe that open education movements and practitioners need to do some introspection, need to do some self-reflection and make some changes. Open education is not automatically anti-racist. Being open doesn't automatically mean you're anti-racist. It needs to be intentional, and so I'm going to spend our time together just sharing with you some food for thought, some reflective questions to help us better mobilize open education in our own areas in pursuit of racial justice, and what I'm going to share here is not new at all. I'm standing on the shoulders of many forerunners, some of whom are my ancestors, and I think that what I am saying also punctuates some of what we have heard throughout the conference. So, how can open education be effectively mobilized for racial justice? I have four points to make. First, open education needs to be practiced with an understanding of racial power and education violence. Jalil Mustafa coined the term education violence, and by that he refers to the harm done to marginalized people, particularly black people, through educational systems, and not only harm at an interpersonal level, but also the structural harm, the systemic harm, institutionalized harm, cultural harm, harm through the curriculum, and these kinds of harms are not some unfortunate side effects of an otherwise functioning good educational system. Formal education systems were never meant to hold, never meant to teach, never meant to employ people of color. They are white supremacists in their intent. For instance, institutions of higher education uphold white supremacy by explicitly excluding the voices and knowledges and experiences of black people and indigenous people and other people of color. They sanitize and whitewash the history of disciplines and they diminish the studies of non-white people, and beyond the curricular aspects of it, we can now confirm, many of us knew this, but it's now more publicly known, that the transatlantic slave systems and settler colonialism were central to the founding and financing of many colleges and universities in the United States. So the bodies of black and indigenous people were the original endowments that made many institutions of higher education possible. And post-secondary institutions are accountable for the continued occupation of indigenous lands, for supporting gentrification or the so-called neighborhood revitalizations of black neighborhoods and those of other marginalized communities. And these institutions of higher education in the United States, they practice racially discriminatory hiring from administrators, the faculty, the staff, and they foster racist tenure and promotion policies. They also institute policing practices and they support policing practices that profile black people and brown people and indigenous people as well, whether they're residents or on campus. And so why am I saying this? Why is it significant? What is the significance of foregrounding the historical and continued racial oppression perpetuated in higher education? Well, it is to encourage us to put open education in context. For open education to be effective in fostering racial justice, it cannot be conceptualized and practiced in a vacuum. It has to be a part of a larger movement for institutional transformation and ideological shifts in education. It has to be developed alongside these movements that want to expose and end education violence. Ideally, open education must be embedded in critical race inquiry in these frameworks that expose and oppose and redress forms of oppression and inequality and injustice. So I'm thinking, for example, of black feminist thoughts or black intellectual thoughts or indigenous studies or critical cultural studies, for example, when open education is grounded in racial justice frameworks such as these, it helps us to reframe the purpose of open education. It helps us to see open education as a tool, not the destination. It helps us to see open education as an entry point into the fight for racial justice in education, but not the end point. In fact, open education really isn't the point. When open education is connected to racial justice frameworks, what we end up with is a blueprint, a vision that will be sustained beyond programs. And one of the themes that I heard coming up throughout this week is how do we sustain open education movements on campuses after students, student leaders leave or after an administrator who has been an ally leaves. And I think that this is one of the ways to do it, is to connect it to and ground it in a ground open education in the desire for racial equity on our campuses. When open education is connected to racial justice frameworks, it also allows us to keep in sight the full reality of what we're dealing with. To acknowledge the breadth and the depth of racial injustices and equally important, it forces us to acknowledge that open education alone cannot dismantle education violence. One area, one discipline, one singular theory cannot claim the ability to dismantle white supremacy. Open education has to be seen as one tool in the struggle for racial liberation in higher education. In addition, when open education is connected to racial justice movements and racial justice frameworks, the ultimate goal will not be to only change traditional ways of teaching for the sake of it or to promote unrestricted access to content or to boost student engagement. That will not be the end point. When it's connected to racial justice framework, open education would even go beyond the pursuit of student success. We would practice open education as a means to promote the sovereignty and the liberation of Black people and Indigenous people and other people of color in the academy, in an academy that was not built for them. And so as I was preparing for this, I saw a recent edition of Inside Higher Ed Newsletter that reported on a study that reveals that introductory courses in STEM push racially marginalized students out of STEM fields. So even though Black and Latinx and Indigenous students make up about 34% of STEM-leaning incoming college students, they only account for 18% of STEM degree recipients. And that statistic is even worse when we break it down by gender. So even when students of color have access to colleges and courses and course materials and content, they are still being marginalized. Racial justice imperatives force us to think beyond access to free content, to think beyond being able to remix and remake content. Open education mobilized in pursuit of racial justice in education will be connected to a sustained effort to end racially motivated education violence. Overall, open education then needs to be grounded and contextualized in racial justice frameworks and movements. And this would mean that the professional development around open education would be framed within the realities of education violence. As we develop workshops to engage faculty in open education resources or in renewable assignments and open pedagogy, these should be accompanied by professional development around education violence as well. So that's my first point. My second point is that to be effectively mobilized for racial justice, open education has to be driven by reparative justice. Now the most common response of educational institutions in the United States to education violence has been to take up diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts, right? Or for short, DEI efforts. But quite frankly, DEI frameworks, the way that they often work on our campuses, they often fail at achieving equity. They do not promote the work necessary to transform institutions into spaces that can serve and nurture and uplift Black people, Indigenous people, and other people of color. This is because the most common approaches to DEI generally foreground helping white people engage with people of different races. And it often ends up privileging the preferences and outcomes of white people overall while neglecting the actual needs of Black people, Indigenous people, and other people of color in the institution. And so by recentering white people, DEI work, at least the conventional DEI work, ends up recreating and perpetuating the invisibility of Black people and Indigenous people and other people of color. So of course, this work to unlearn these ideas is necessary for racial justice, right? There's this kind of work that needs to be done within white communities, of course, but it is not the only work. And so my colleague Tatiana Cruz and I suggest a reparative justice framework to education violence. Reparative justice is premised on the idea of reparations or making amends to the people who have been harmed by slavery, by settler colonialism, or just the broader impacts of white supremacy and structural racism. Unfortunately, reparations is often interpreted in economic terms, right? Interpreted as the writing of a check. And that is a very limited interpretation of reparations. So reparations movements in the United States and really around the world, such as those from movement for Black lives and the reparations project and land back, they conceptualize reparations in more complicated ways, right? Like they conceptualize it around processes of redress and healing and remedying around restitution and repatriation of things lost and stolen, around the repair of damages done in the past to Black and Indigenous people. So stopping current harm that's going on right now and preventing the reproduction of harm. And so reparative justice leans heavily into these articulations of reparations. It involves confronting harm, acknowledging and believing, that's important, believing the trauma of Black and Indigenous people and other people of color. And it actively seeks to make amends for those damages, its centers of lifting and restoring Black people and Indigenous people. And this means then that reparative justice is explicitly driven by the experiences of the marginalized groups, not the dominantly positioned groups. And it prioritizes their healing or healing. It prioritizes their mental health and their sovereignty and their restoration. And so some key questions that reparative justice asks are how have Black and Indigenous people and other people of color been harmed? How do Black people and Indigenous people continue to be harmed? What trauma are they facing or living with? And what needs to be done in order to secure their repair and their healing? So to be mobilized for racial justice, open education practices should be grounded in this framework of reparative justice. It should begin with the needs and experiences of the systematically oppressed. And so if we reframe those key questions in the context of open education, we would be asking then how have Black and Indigenous people and other people of color been harmed in our institutions? How do Black and Indigenous people continue to be harmed in our classrooms, in our curriculum, by our administration? What trauma are they facing or living with because of our teaching practices? What do they need from us for their repair and for their healing? And what would that look like? What would it look like for open education to be reparative? Well, first, I think that this would mean giving up open education's emphasis on equality. Say what? Yes, giving up relinquishing open education's emphasis on equality. So many open education practices are based on equality, ensuring that all students can access course material or that every student gets an opportunity to participate in the curriculum. And this sounds great, but unfortunately, when we begin with equality, nothing changes. We are in a deeply hierarchical space. So when we give everyone the same thing, we do not change existing hierarchies. We actually end up recreating them. So right now, equality and equal opportunities statements are actually antithetical to racial justice because they do not redress power and inequities. They do not acknowledge that there are forces at work that make it so that even if we get the same things, we do not end up in the same place. Equality is a goal, yes, but it isn't the solution to racial disparities. On the other hand, if we lead with reparative justice, if we lead with an eye to intentionally repair and stop harm, when we lead with the intent to focus on uplifting and restoring those who are suffering the most under this system, we can actually then achieve equality. So reparative justice can actually get us to equality at some point. So using reparative justice as the operating framework for open education also means emphasizing healing. Healing is a large part of repairing harm. It requires time. It requires investment in the well-being of people who have been harmed. So a medical analogy may be useful here. When the body is broken or ruptured, we first need surgery or some kind of emergency care to suture the area, but that is not the end. Arguably, the real work for the patient, anyway, begins after the surgery during the recovery when they will need the support of people who care about their recovery. They may need physical therapy or nursing care. And Malcolm X also expresses this kind of racial justice in also this kind of medical term as well. And so I like the place where he says, if you stick a knife in my back nine inches and put it out six inches, there is no progress. If you pull it out all the way, there is still no progress. The progress is healing the wound that the blow has made, healing the wound that was created by the harm. So what if open education was fundamentally envisioned as a healing practice? Let's dream a little, right? Like beyond making course material affordable, what would it look like if, at its core, open education practices were invested in the restoration and the uplift of racially marginalized people? What if we designed our classes and our syllabi with Black people and Indigenous people and other people of color in mind, whether they are in our classes or not? And by the way, when we focus on centering Black people and Indigenous people and other people of color and other students of color, our entire teaching becomes better. When we care for the most oppressed and create conditions where the most repressed can thrive, that benefits everyone. It allows everybody to have an opportunity, a great opportunity to achieve their highest potential. Again, reparative justice can get us to equality. I also like the Combahee River Collective. This is the seminal group for Black feminist thought in the United States, and their manifesto says if Black women were free, it would mean that everyone else would have to be free, since our freedom would necessitate the destruction of all the systems of oppression. And so in the same way, when we focus on the most marginalized, we will go a long way toward making education systems better for everyone. And what if open education practices work to create safe and brave spaces for the most racially oppressed? Could open could open education pedagogy, could open pedagogy intentionally and explicitly makes space for racially marginalized students to co-create learning content that is relevant and honoring of their cultural communities? Could reusable assignments be a moment or an opportunity to collaborate with racially marginalized students to support and build and preserve and restore their cultural assets and sacred sites? What if open education material not only focused on telling stories of racial oppression, but also foregrounded stories of the resistance, of the creativity, of the joy, of the beauty in communities of color? So I think, for example, about Rastafari philosophies and Rastafari liberty, which is, you know, Rastafari way of living. And out of Rastafilosophies come, they frame Blackness and they frame Africanness as divine, right? Like as of the gods, what if open education allowed for spaces where there could be various ways in which Blackness and Indigenousness is conceptualized and experiences, the multiple experiences of Black and Indigenous people and other people of color can be expressed? And what if open education publishing platforms were dedicated to repairing epistemic violence? Gayatri Spivak refers to epistemic violence as the erasure of knowledges and the ways of knowing of the colonized by the colonizer. What if open education was committed to disrupting epistemic violence? What if it were committed to amplifying and celebrating the voices of scholars who have been excluded from the canons of every discipline in the United States, specifically because of their race? And what if these platforms were committed to restoring non-Western forms of knowledge production? So, for example, in Jamaica, we say mispirit takar or mispirit na takar, which is translated into English. It would mean my spirit is drawn to someone or my spirit is drawn to something. It refers to this statement in Jamaican culture refers to relying on senses and knowledges that are not recognized by Western colonial forces. It's about trusting in something that does not make sense in Western epistemology. And recently, I had the pleasure and really the honor of organizing and being a part of the Black Women and Girls Symposium at Wake Forest University where I was able to share space with some amazing Black women who are really like presenting ways of being that are outside of the dominant Western ideas. So, for example, I remember Noelle Zinacombe, who is a menstrual activist and scholar in Zimbabwe, and she is researching menstrual hygiene management methods and materials used by Indigenous women in Zimbabwe. And these ideas and these materials predate colonialism. I also want to shout out to Jariah Strozier, who is creating a new gender-raised weight matrix as a different way to assess the health of thick Black women, leaning heavily away from the deficit models of Black people that are so prevalent in conventional medicine.  Amarie is a professor of dance, and she created Embodiology, which is the practice of using movement and music to improve focus and mental alertness and communication and just overall well-being. And this, this Embodiology draws on ancestral knowledge of performance within traditional West African cultures. Now, these knowledge systems that these women are bringing forth have been marginalized in academia, right? Because academia considers Indigenous knowledge and attitudes and Indigenous practices as pre-scientific and therefore of no value. But what if open education practices and publishing could be used to make space for this kind of so-called otherness? What if it could be used to make space for African and Indigenous ways of knowing African and Indigenous philosophies and ontologies? And I don't mean creating a separate section or creating like a special issue because in some ways that keep, that continues the othering, right? And there's some value in that, so I'm not completely dismissing it. There's some value in that, of course. What I am talking about though is open education publishing operating on the principle of denormalizing white Western ontologies. Right now, open education platforms seem to operate more through this equity lens, right? Like through the equity model, all authors are welcome to publish, including Black authors, Indigenous authors, and other authors of color. That is different though from explicitly inviting these scholars who have been ostracized, who have been marginalized, to publish. It is different from prioritizing marginalized voices. If that's different from having a reparative mode of operation, right? Like what if open education publishing was built on a reparative model? So that was my second point. Reparative justice should be central in open education for it to be effectively mobilized for racial justice. This brings me to my third point. To be effectively mobilized for racial justice, open education has to be decolonized. Now, Black feminists, they've been talking about decolonization for a very long time, so Bell Hooks, for example, describes decolonization as breaking the ways in which our reality is defined and shaped by the dominant culture, dominant white culture, and dominant colonial culture, and really asserting our own understanding of that reality, our own experience. And of course, Indigenous scholars around the world, they also conceptualize decolonization as dismantling dominant white world orientations. So decolonization can be envisioned as revealing and dismantling colonial powers in all their forms. Now, of course, decolonization should be applied to courses. And I've heard some very interesting presentations on how Montgomery College and faculty and students are collaborating to decolonize course content. And there was also a presentation on the decolonization of curation. And that's very interesting and important work. I argue that open education as a practice, as a community, has to be decolonized. For open education, this process has to begin with a honest interrogation of whiteness and Eurocentric white supremacy in how open education is conceived and practiced. We have to undo the normalization of whiteness in open education world. So first, the open education world, especially those identified as the leaders and the seminal thinkers, they remain predominantly white. And this reality is really frustrating because the major pillars of open education, to democratize educational practices, to challenge established and normalized ways of learning, representational justice, these have been promoted by Black and Indigenous communities for decades. I'm thinking, for example, of Indigenous pedagogy. And I'm thinking of bell hooks and teaching to transgress. And I'm thinking of, again, teaching as a practice of freedom and the pedagogy of the oppressed, right? Like, these ideas have been circulating within racially marginalized communities for years. The central pillars of open education are borrowing from what Black and Indigenous people have been pursuing and practicing. And yet, Black and Indigenous people are excluded from advancing it. Most times, these forerunners are not even cited. And I would do want to give a shout out to Robin de Rosa, and to Reggie, Jean Guiani, and others who are working to change this. But a lot of work still needs to be done to purposefully include Black and Indigenous people and other people of color into the open education world. Now, I concede that you may not be intentionally excluding Black people and Indigenous people from your organizations. But you are also not intentionally working to attract them either.  For one, the privilege of whiteness in open education communicates that open education is not committed to racial justice. Unfortunately, it has developed the reputation in the United States as being, quote, white people's work, or the kind of work that white people do to shore up their own wholeness. And besides this, the privileging of whiteness also is in danger of reproducing colonialism. We don't want to perpetuate the practice of Columbus in, as some people call it, calls it, taking the intellectual property of Black people and Indigenous people and other people of color and calling it, calling it your own. We don't want to be reproducing that. That's another example of epistemic violence that also needs to be repaired. So open education needs to, therefore, intentionally include people of color. And that inclusion needs to be voluntary. It needs to be purposeful. And it needs to be equitable and just. So let's just take a moment to kind of break those apart. By voluntary, I mean that you need to put people in place who want to do it. Not all of us want to do this kind of work. We out here trying to survive. We out here trying to raise our children, navigate this toxic environment in academia. We are navigating tenure and promotion stuff that's kind of against us. So not all of us really have the energy or even the desire to do this kind of work. Some of us do. Top those people, right? Like it should be voluntary. You shouldn't just put people in place because they're people of color. It should also be purposeful. This inclusion should be purposeful, which is really the opposite of tokenism, right? So when Black people or Indigenous people or other people of color are brought into and take a seat at the table in open education, they need to be heard and not only seen. They need to be validated and they need to be supported. Give people some resources, right? Like if there's a job to be done, free up some resources so that people can do the job, right? And thirdly, it needs to be equitable and it needs to be just. And yeah, that means compensation. It needs to be compensated. There is a long history of exploitative and extractionist engagement between dominantly positioned, racially dominant people and Black people and Indigenous people and other people of color. Let's open education as a practice and as a community and break that, right? By compensating. So number one, by compensating people of color for the work, that for their contributions, what it does is it helps to redistribute wealth in academia, right? We know that dominantly positioned people get huge salaries now to do so-called diversity work, you know, to commend, to consult while Black and Indigenous people are expected to do the work, right? I guess you just be grateful to do this work, right? So purposeful compensation can be a corrective to this. And also secondly, because again, there's a history of undervaluing the labor of Black people and Indigenous people and other people of color, when they are compensated quite frankly, they are more likely to be underpaid than their white counterparts or white counterparts. So open education as a community should break with this. Think of this as service justice, right? It's returning tangible benefits to Black people and Indigenous people and other people of color for their contributions. And dismantling the normalization of whiteness in open education also means acknowledging faculty of color and their unique challenge in higher education, right? So faculty of color make up a fraction of overall faculty, but we are here and our experiences are not the same as those of our white colleagues. The implications for engaging in open education are not the same for us as they are for our white counterparts. For example, practicing open assignments, right? Like, or renewable assignments, for example, can be a weapon used against people of color. We are already presumed incompetent. So creating assignments and ask students to co-create with us, we are more likely to be accused of lazy teaching. And asking us, you know, to use open publishing platforms can be risky. Tenure and promotion is still based on publication and in many places the ranking of those publications. We are already less likely to receive tenure and promotion. So using unconventional publishing platforms can actually harm us, right? Like publishing in open source platforms requires privilege. It requires racial privilege, institutional privilege, having the privilege of automatic credibility, having epistemic authority, and those are often elusive for Black people and Indigenous people and other scholars of color, right? And so shout out to Marcel Reisbach from the Open Employee that highlighted some of this privilege. And then also, practicing open education requires the challenging of faculty power in the classroom. But remember that any power that Black and Indigenous people as faculty have in the classroom is very fragile and precarious. And there's a history of Black and Indigenous knowledges being stolen. So copyright is certainly problematic, but what protection do Black and Indigenous scholars have on open softwares, right? Open education can certainly provide wonderful spaces for Black and Indigenous people and other people of color, but that is not automatic or guaranteed. Open education has to be decolonized so that it can be safe spaces for all of us, right? So apart from dismantling whiteness in open education, open education should also be cultivating empathy, right? Like open education as a community, rather, should cultivate empathy for Black and Indigenous, for their Black and Indigenous colleagues and other colleagues of color. And so I know that we want to build a community and we often talk about an open education community, but we cannot have community without addressing racial disparities among us. If open education does not address racial disparities, then to borrow Robin Kelly's framework, your freedom dream might very well become our nightmare. That's my third point, right? Like it needs to be open education should be decolonized. And finally, fourth, to be effectively mobilized for racial justice, open education has to be practiced with love. Now, I am not talking about the rom-com kind of love, right? I'm not talking about the kind of love that is paternalistic, you know, that is set on saving Black people and brown people and Indigenous people. I'm not talking about a love that is born from guilt or pity or, you know, that is expressed in white tears. I'm not talking about a love that advocates for grace, without justice, or a love that asks people of color, especially Black people, to remain civil while we are being persecuted. No. No. I'm talking about a radical love for Black people, brown people, Indigenous people, and other people of color. What does that look like? Well, it could show up in a variety of ways. But here are a few things that come to mind. A radical love would be a love that rejects all colonial world views that have been placed upon us. It would be a love that wants to see Black people and Indigenous people and other people of color genuinely want to see us survive and thrive. It would be a love that moves white people from allyship to advocacy, that moves from helping to supporting, right, like in ways that preserve the agency and sovereignty of Black people and Indigenous people and other people of color. And it would be a love that refuses to retreat to the comfort of, you know, whiteness or retreat to the comfort of what Robin D'Angelo calls white fragility, but is willing to stay in discomfort to address white supremacy. Now, of all of these points, this is perhaps the most difficult because it is the most personal. It cannot be taught. It has to be cultivated. It requires introspection and honesty. And it cannot be easily measured, you know, in a conventional assessment tool. But this is an important point. This point of love is an important point. And I want to leave with you this quote by Robin Kelly in his book, Freedom Dreams, where he says, love and imagination may be the most revolutionary impulses available to us, and yet we have failed to understand their political importance and respect them as powerful social forces. He goes on to say that the catalyst for political engagement has never been misery, poverty, or oppression. People are drawn to social movement because of hope. Their dreams of a new world radically different from the one they inherited. Now, using this as a point of departure, open education practices are most effective to pursue racial justice when they are conceived and conceptualized in this kind of radical love with a little imagination and a little dreaming. So thank you. I'm going to stop there and I'll see if you have any questions. But more so, more conversations, right? Let's have a conversation or the beginnings of a conversation. Thank you so much, Camille. What a wonderful way for us to wrap up our conference this week. I don't know if you've had a chance to notice in the chat, there's a lot of love, a lot of love in the chat, and a lot of appreciation for your message today. So thank you. We do have some time to take questions, and so I just want to remind folks to use the Q&A feature to put your questions in there. And I will start with a first question. What are some of the open publication journals that you would recommend? Thank you for that question. So I am not, I'm going to just fully admit that like open education journals and publishing is not not fully my lane. And so I'm going to ask if anybody else has any who knows about other kinds of open education platforms that may be doing this kind of reparative work to put that in the chat. I will say that I have learned from this conference, for example, there's a Rotel grant, a Rotel, I believe that's how you say it, grant that is compensating faculty for developing textbooks, I believe, or other kinds of teaching material that would, that has the potential to be reparative in that they're supporting the voices of underserved people, like wanting to produce textbooks that would support the voices of underserved people. And so I think that that is certainly an area there. And then I'm also thinking about another initiative in California, I think the California consortium that includes some community colleges that they're also doing this kind of work, this kind of, they're doing work that has the potential to be reparative, meaning that they are encouraging scholars and making space for explicitly making space for the voices of underserved, racially underserved people to put forward their ideas and to put forward ideas that are different from what has been conventionally seen as the norm. Great. Thanks. Another question is, are university finally hired a DEI administrator? How do we make sure that we approach this new administrator in a way that our OER program can be fully aligned to their goals? Yeah, thank you for that question. Now, so first, I have to just, I have to say that my institution also hired a diversity, well, a chief diversity officer, one of the disappointing things, not only about this particular position, but about positions such as these is that it's often done in a very reactionary way. So something happened, students protested, let's get somebody on campus who can handle, you know, who can handle all of this. And so often that person is being brought into a space where maybe they don't even have enough resources to do what they want to do. They're being brought into a space where they are expected to do that thing by themselves. And it's also precarious, right? They don't have tenure, they don't have, you know, they don't have those kinds of security that other faculty, that other people in the institution may have. And so I want to say that even, I want to, I wanted to preface my statement with that because I know going to work with these, you know, DEI persons can be challenging because they may not be able to do exactly even what they set out to do. They have to work within a particular, within a particular constraints of DEI, for example. That being said, though, I believe that my point would be that if we approach this as this is, here is an initiative that can further the job that you want to do around racial equity, right? Like if we foreground the desire for racial equity and the need to pursue racial equity and then open education being one of the ways to do this. And I do believe that it can be rolled in with the other kinds of racial equity initiatives that that person may do on campus. Again, within the constraints of that institution. So in terms of approaching my, you have to know the very specific circumstance and, you know, different institutions have different kind of, you know, constraints. I would, I would think that you would approach that person as wanting to contribute to the work toward uplifting and restoring people of color, Black people and Indigenous people in your, in your institution. Yes. But then also just kind of as a moral imperative as a way to transform the institution. And that's another thing as well, another approach to it as well. If your role here is to, you know, help to pursue equity on campus, then let's transform the institution. And here is one way to transform the pedagogy of the institution. Those two things just come to mind. But please, if there are other people, there are so many people who have already been thinking about this and who are doing this work, that if you have other ideas as well, please put them in the chat. Thank you. We have a couple of questions about the focus on tokenization. So the first one is, how can we incentivize faculty and students of color to participate in targeted open publishing opportunities without this work tokenizing them? Yeah. I would go back to saying that one is the, I think, volunteer voluntary work. Again, you be empathetic, because for example, as a Black woman in the academy wanting to do the kinds of work that I want to do, I am hyper visible. And so, you know, like, I may not necessarily be able to be out front and or I may not even want to necessarily be out from because I'm already taking on the challenges of just surviving in this institution. So I would say lead with some empathy around it. And it's going to take some patience, right? There's been a lot of reasons to distrust institutions of higher education. There are a lot of reasons for Black people and Indigenous people to not want to trust anything that's within the academy because of the way that the academy has exploited us. And so it will take some patience. But I would say that it should be voluntary. I would absolutely say that if it can be compensated and stipend, that would also be great. But again, just moving with some grace and some patience, because this is not, this continues to be a space that's not very welcome in and not very accepting of Black people and Indigenous people and African-centered and Indigenous-centered thought. So you can't blame, you can't blame faculty, a particular Black faculty and Indigenous faculty if they're going to tread lightly. So approach in terms of volunteering and in terms of it being compensated and making sure that the outlet or the publisher, the publishing platform that you are asking them to come to, make sure that it actually has a vision and it actually has a purposeful vision of uplifting and repairing and restoring voices and not tokenizing. Sometimes, not all the time, but sometimes when it is a special issue or something happened in 2020, George Floyd was murdered. So let's do this special issue. It can feel like that. So make sure that the platform itself and the publishing itself as an operating practice, that it is very much reparative and restorative and not only they're not only using that as a kind of token to appease or to kind of react to something that's already going on. Great. Thanks Camille. The other question about tokenization was about library that wants to leverage the diversity funds at the university to create an OER librarian position for an early career librarian of color. What suggestions do you have to keep that position from being a tokenized position? So first of all, I think that is wonderful. And if you are, I can see how there can be potential pushback for something like that. Often when you try to do something reparative, like when you say that we want this position specifically for a Black person or an Indigenous person or a person of color, you get pushed back from it. Ironically, using the equality argument or the meritocracy argument. So that sounds like a wonderful thing in terms of wanting to be very explicit about bringing a minority, a racial minority person there. I, part of what, part of some of the challenges with doing this work, especially when you're brought on in that specific role is access to resources. So I believe that if you are going to bring somebody on to do the work, make sure that you have the things in place to have the person succeed in doing the work. If not, then you really just want your faith. You really just want their, their, their likeness so that you can say that you've hired somebody. So make sure that it's like, like purposefully, you have some funds and here will be the funds. I know that when, especially if it's a predominantly white institution, I know that when people are, people of color are going to be looking for, for these kinds of jobs. One of the things that they'll be looking for is how committed are you to this? Show that you're committed by telling them, you know, show the money. If for some of us who are old enough or been in this culture enough, you know, to show the money, show, show the resources. Here's what you'll have. Here's what you'll be able to do. Here is your staff. Here is your, show that you're serious about having this person do the work by demonstrating the resources that this person will have. I think that that will go a long way in indicating that you're not just bringing the person on because they're a person of color and because you need to appease some kind of cool diversity initiative. Wonderful. Thank you so much, Camille. Unfortunately, we are at time. I know there are more questions that folks have for you. And again, like there's so much appreciation for your message today and for your energy. So just want to thank you again for such an inspiring keynote this afternoon. Thank you so much, Susan, and for Open Education Conference for having me. And thank you, everybody, for coming.


Mercedes-Benz announced it would be integrating Tesla's North American charging standard, or NACS, into its electric vehicle lineup. This comes on the heels of similar announcements made by Ford and GM last month. Nobody as a person who follows EV trends in the marketplace. Let's talk about what's going on here. It could become an industry standard right now. The Society of Automotive Engineers is looking at making it a standard, and that might take some of the power away from Tesla, which is a good thing. One of the other good things about the NACS adapter is there's bi-directional charging, which is vehicle to grid, vehicle to home, and vehicle to load. Like if you needed to charge your refrigerator in an outage, you could do that. Current Tesla cars don't do this, but it is in the NACS standard that Tesla put out.


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On the upswing at 26 years old, Matt Chapman has quickly become one of the best third basemen in the league. Last year, he won the AL Platinum Glove Award. That was his first full season in the big leagues. But it's not just his glove that's been impressive. It's also become a pretty dangerous hitter, too. And that has Oakland fans excited about his future. And Matt Chapman just makes another miraculous play. Unbelievable at the hot corner. Matt Chapman has homered again. How you like it now? He's incredible. Plays the game the right way. He's incredibly talented. One of the best defenders I've ever seen. One of the best hitters I've seen, too. He's the best third baseman in the game. He has great power at the plate. He's a smart hitter. He's doing a lot for our ball club. And that's why he's getting the recognition he is. A rocket off the bat at Chapman. Matt Chapman unloads the dead center. Chapman's our guy. Anchors that corner of the diamond and does it better than anybody, obviously, with his golden platinum gloves. He's just an all-around complete player. What he's able to do day in and day out, the running grabs over his head, falling out of play and throwing off his back foot across the field. It's different and special. I think he's a leader in the club hubs. He has fun with everybody. He works extremely hard. Matt Chapman a dazzling play. In today's game, there's such a plethora of talent in third baseman. He's got to be the pinnacle of him. Well, he's really good. And I feel like most of America doesn't really know who he is, to be honest. And just to clarify, the platinum glove essentially is the number one goal glove. So the best fielder. That's what he won last year. But I'm curious, swing dog, what you think his ceiling is, especially offensively. We know defensively he's already pretty great. Yeah, you're hoping that that defense, which really has put him on the map, his offense matches that. If it does, you're starting to look at a perennial all-star. An MVP voting, you're going to see. Last year, he finished seventh in the MVP voting because of the hot stretch. The beginning of the year, his first 81 games, only a 250, 10 home runs, and 29 RBIs. He already has 10 home runs this year as we saw the numbers. He is starting to act more confident in the batter's box. We saw the home game-winning home run last night. This is a talented player that has that high expectation. Who knows what the ceiling is, but man, he's he trending northward. Two favorite stories about Chapman. Two favorite anecdotes, I guess. One, the A's drafted him upon the recommendation of their scouts. This is Team Moneyball. If you read the book, if you saw the movie, they trashed their scouts, right? They want the numbers. But the scouts were adamant, we want Chapman, this is why. And they told Billy Bean and convinced him. The other thing, this is amazing to me. Same high school as Nolan Aronato. El Toro High School in Lake Forest, California produced two of the greatest defensive third baseman in the game today, and maybe in the game's history. That's pretty impressive. I just want to know what El Toro High School's defensive runs they were that year. I mean, I don't know if they have the better. Well, they were two years apart. But still, they were pretty good. It's pretty unbelievable, right, because Aronato's 28, you're right.


Hey, this is kind of weird, has anyone seen Neil or Owen? They were supposed to be here and closing session and all of you were standing here, so I didn't really plan anything. Let's go surfing now, everybody's learning how to come on a safari with me. Inside and hidden now singing a song. Sorry everyone, sorry. Owen, how did I do? It was pretty good for a seppo, we call you guys seppos. But I think next time you kind of want to put the fins downside, not kind of face it. Downside?  Do we miss anything? We've been hanging out at the beach today, it was a lot of fun. Holy moly. Alright, what were you guys doing for the last couple of days? The beach has been good. Alright, so what are we doing? I think we're wrapping things up. Two good days, everyone had a good time? How many people are in from Australia? Is this like the most beautiful place you've ever seen? Pretty darn close, the most beautiful place I've ever seen. I don't see it when the weather is good. Alright, well thank you everybody. That's Owen. That's Neil. Thank you. Thank you. We've kind of felt a little bit like Abbott and Costello for the last six months or so. Tied at the hip, on phone calls for, you know, Owen's just waking up, I'm just going to bed. Work to be done, so it's been a good six, eight months of back and forth. Man, it was just a pleasure putting this event on.  Some of the work we put into making this event happen. And a little bit of the financials and some fun stats for you. So let's jump on in. Alright, so I think we just did, how's it going? I think we did. That means, did you have a nice time? Alright, so this is you, Neil. Alright, so let's see. All you guys, well, a lot of you guys went in attended sessions. A few of you stayed up in the Coder lounge since you got here. Some of you guys were in the bar when I got here and I just saw you running in. But they're for those that went to sessions, if you would, take a few moments, go to the URL up above and evaluate your sessions, let us know how they were. So we know who you want to see back and who you don't. We've been through this a few times and mostly we've got a pretty great roster of speakers. Hopefully you guys found the same. Is that a fair statement? Yeah? Alright, excellent. Okay, so some things coming up tonight. Are you guys familiar with our Tribuneite? Alright, so we're doing Tribuneite. It's going to be at the Beach Palace Hotel, which is about a block and a half. Is that about right? Yeah, about a block and a half down the road. We're going to kick off at nine o'clock. Please be there a little bit beforehand. Big blue and white done. Indeed. Do we have a question from the audience? North. Does that help? That way. Left. Opposite end of the beach. And it's in the aquarium room in the Beach Palace. It's quite big. Yeah, you can't really miss it. It's a big blue and white dome, as Owen said. It's about a block and a half down to the left. And it's not your typical Tribuneite of what was the name of Springsteen's first album. It's all a little bit more relative to what we're doing here. No, unless he was a Drupal Dev. But it's a great way to kind of get a table together, get some new people, get to meet everyone, and just hang out and wrap things up. Yeah, by all means. And Stephanie has taken it upon herself to make sure that there is a really bizarre prize of some sort at the end. So we've set her free. I take no responsibility for what she comes up with. But don't stay out too late tonight because tomorrow? Tomorrow is our traditional contribution spring. Are you a coder? Come. Help us pick some bugs. Help them contribute. If you're not a coder, shoot. You can work on documentation. There's all sorts of great things that you can do. And if you've never done anything like this before, we have a great community workshop that will be going on. I think it's in the Bronte Room downstairs where we'll teach you how do you contribute in a code spring. So it's a great opportunity for everybody. You don't have to know what you're doing. We'll help you out. And if you know what you're doing, we'd really appreciate your help. So we're planning for a good 25% of you typically stick around. Please do. And if more of you will, that would be even better. Free lunch. All right. So there is an overall event survey as you guys, you've been here now, right? You've seen what we're doing. Let us know. What did you like? What didn't you like? Kind of like the speakers in the sessions. Let us know how to improve our event. We can't do it without your feedback. Otherwise, just get this again. So let's do it. All right. So on the last note for me, as you guys know, I'm the director of events for the Drupal Association. This is what I do all year round is work on Drupal cons. As such, I want to remind you guys that one of the ways that we pay for Drupal cons is through your support. So if you'd be kind enough to join the Drupal Association, get one of those cool blue stickers on your badge. Get a cool web badge for your profile page. There's all sorts of wonderful benefits that come along. And really what you do is you help support and fund our project. And it's your project. So if you would, if you haven't already, please join the Drupal Association. We're kind of hidden here, but obviously ADO slash membership. And you'll be off and running in no time. There is a link from the front page. It's only 30 American dollars. And he will beat you with that. It was not an accident that we gave Morton a surfboard. And you should use the pointy end when you beat people. Oh, and tell them some important stuff about what happened here this week. Well, this is kind of fun stuff. So I think one of the great things about a Drupal con is we try and break a venue in terms of records for things that they've done. So the first thing that we have is our use of the internet. And I do want to thank everyone for staying on their 3G devices. If they did, it did save us in terms of bandwidth. And we didn't necessarily break any records, but you can see that we had a significant amount of traffic throughout the last couple of days there. Hey, you should introduce him to Doug. Yeah, so you would have seen this very handsome man walking around a couple of days ago. And this is Doug Robertson, who's the head of IT here. And he put all the new infrastructure in and was on the phone to Telstra until the 11th hour. And you probably saw this guy walking out about half an hour ago. So Doug really kind of went to the 11th level for us. So, yeah, poor Doug. It is no lie whatsoever that the internet actually came on at 8.30 Tuesday morning. We were on the phone constantly working with... What's that company called? Telstra? Yeah, for those of us from the States, it's kind of like working with AT&T and getting your cable modem back up and running, but a much bigger deal because there's a lot more government politics involved. Doug was phenomenal, diligent, worked as hard as he possibly could, and from what I've seen, the internet was never out from more than a moment or two for an access point to reset itself. So if you happen to see Doug in the rest of the time that you're here, please give him a pat on the back and show him a little extra love. So just in terms of you guys, so everyone put their hand up before, in terms of stats for people that attended, we're expecting about 80% local attendees and that's what happened. And then you can see the interesting breakdown of the international attendees there. And I was trying to kind of pick who might have been the person that came the furthest. There was someone who came from Stockholm. Anyone come further than Stockholm? Who had more than a 30-hour flight? It felt like more than 30 hours. So I think this was a great example of being able to invite all of our international visitors here, and also for everyone locally to experience an event that's on par with what you'd experience overseas. So then in terms of all the stuff that you ate and drank, we did go through 500 litres of coffee and a lot of other food there. And I think the 25 pineapples, I'm not sure what people are doing with 25 pineapples. Let's just leave that out. You were saying something about it being a market. Let's just leave that out. So that's what we went through. And then in terms of dollars, this is the interesting part. So it's an open-sourced event. It's a non-profit organisation behind it, and we're very transparent with all the money that's gone into the event and out of it. Absolutely. So we do like to talk about the money. A lot of people spent a lot of money to get here. The sponsors obviously spent a considerable amount of money to help us. One of the things that's really important, and we'll mention again in a couple of slides, is without the support of our sponsors, this is a $1,000 ticket. So we want to offer just a lot of love, and we'll go through them again, but an awful lot of love to our sponsors for making it a reasonably priced ticket and bringing it in. All right, so let's go back one. All right, so to talk about where the money came from, basically, there's a couple of different things. One was general conference registration. We actually blew away our expectations. Our expectations were around $99,000. And as you can see, we came in approximately $123,000, and these numbers are actually a little bit older than what's today. So, and by the way, all these numbers are pretty good estimates, but they are not final by any means. Anyway, so please, if you recognize, $123,000 brought in through registration, sponsorship, as you can see, about the same amount, and trainings, we offered three trainings in the beginning, and it turned out that only one of them really took off, as well as we'd hoped for. So we give a lot of kudos to the people who did the plan, build, launch, Drupal track, brought in $15,000, and our business day, of course, as well, brought in about $9,000, maybe a little bit less. So that's where the money came in from, and then you'll ask yourself, what did we do with it? I won't read through all of these, but this is a pretty wonderful venue, and it was actually fairly reasonable for the venue itself. As anybody who's not from Australia will say, food cost a lot, a lot. McDonald's was like my weekly salary. So no offense, Holly. So an awful lot of our money went into catering. It's pretty much our biggest bill. The internet, we were charged by bandwidth, and obviously we don't have a final number yet, because we're not done. We've got a great contribution sprint tomorrow, you know, approximately $12,000. Your breakdown's right there, you can see where it went. So the question is, for the first Drupal con in the Southern Hemisphere, what exactly does this really mean? Well, total revenue at $275, total expenses approximately $209, we're able to contribute back approximately $66,000 Australian dollars to the Drupal project. And we thank you all. And for us in Australia, this is a really important contribution. We've obviously run Drupal camps locally before, and it's very hard for us to transfer that money back to the Drupal Association without lots of tax implications. And I think personally, and I'm speaking on behalf of the community here, to see that money go directly back to the Drupal Association to grow the perception of Drupal around the world and the community support is something that I'm personally very proud of and everyone that contributed to the event should be very proud of too. So where does that money go? You tell me, Owen. So anyone ever visited Drupal.org? Yeah? Just to put it in context of running Drupal.org, it gets 21 million unique visitors per month, which is the population of Australia more or less. And if you put Drupal.org in Australia, I would put some money that it would be by far the biggest website that's hosted in Australia. Obviously it's not. And in terms of the members that it services, there's 932,865 members as of late today. And that's growing at about, I don't know, 1,000 a month. And then the developers that run through that too, we've got almost 23,000 of them. And the contribution that they make through Drupal.org is immense, so 20,000-plus modules. And even this week, there was 3,500 code commits. And I think to consider that Drupal.org is the hub of collaboration for everyone here outside of these events is a vitally important thing. And anyone that knows about web hosting, hosting something that big is a considerable undertaking. And where else it goes? Drupal events like Drupal.coms and code sprints and Global Training Days, those types of things. Scholarships, so to bring people into the Drupal community, who don't have the means necessarily to do so, and we had some scholarships here. Community Cultivation Grants, someone's got a great idea about how we can grow the community, then the Drupal Association will consider funding that. And then finally, the thing to mention is the Drupal Association is responsible for the legal protection of Drupal as an open source product. So if some dastardly person tries to commercialize it and make money off it, then the Drupal Association will step in. So that's where the money goes. And in terms of more events this year, you want to fill us in, Neil? Yeah, absolutely. So we go from, if you guys are in the keynote this morning, we go from this amazing height of summer, beautiful beach in Sydney, we're going to go to rainy, cloudy kind of Portland, which is always fun and it has its own charm. That's only 300 days a year. Absolutely, 320 I think. But we're going to go to Portland. Our theme is building bridges and connecting communities. It's going to be the first event actually of its kind because we're partnering with two other really fantastic events. We're partnering with the web vision people and we're partnering with Symphony Live, which Dries talked about in yesterday's keynote, the importance of symphony to the Drupal project. We've done something very unique. We're all in the same building and if you would like to come to all three conferences and enjoy the benefits of all three, it only costs you $100 more than what a Drupal con registration is. That's a pretty awesome deal. That's probably over 200 sessions that you'll have access to. So we really encourage people to come on out to Portland. I personally recommend that if you're interested in coming to Portland that you sign up quickly. One of the reasons being is we're actually quickly running out of hotel rooms. If you're coming for the core nights, the double tree, which is our headquarter hotel, can handle a bunch more, but not too many. If you're staying on any of the shoulder nights, you're over to the Marriott Hotel, which is also fantastic. It's a little bit of a ways away and the longer you wait, the further you're going to get from where all the action is happening. So it's not a deterrent to not come at a later date, just a little encouragement. If you'd like to join us, by all means, please do and no need to hesitate. Besides, you want to beat the price bump, right? So make sure that you go online and you can register now. And in September, I've mentioned kind of the beauty of Australia several times because I'm blown away by it. There's another type of beauty, which is the old European beauty, and I'm really, really excited to go see Drupalcon Prague. So in September, we're going to be out there and we're building that program now. There'll be a lot more details at, of course, prog2013.drupal.org. I recommend that you keep your eye on it, check it out, and I'm sure that you're already subscribed to all of our mail lists, but by all means, Drupalcon Prague is going to be the other type of beauty and a little larger than what we're doing here, probably around 1,500, 2,000 people somewhere around that range. And you'll make a lot of new friends and see a really, really interesting gorgeous place. And if there's anyone local who hasn't been to a Northern Hemisphere Drupalcon, they are an amazing experience. It's this, but six times bigger in the case of the USA. And it's a fantastic opportunity to have a nice holiday on the side of it. So I think I'd base my vacations around going to Drupalcons for the last few years. As do I. So just talking about some local events that are coming up over the next year as well. And the first thing that I wanted to mention is that Canberra is stepping up to run a Drupalgov camp, and that'll be running mid-year, and that'll be an opportunity to come together and to talk about what impact Drupal's having in government. And the big question is what's happening with this event next year. So I think the important thing to point out is that this being a Drupalcon as a floating event, the likelihood that it'll come back to this region quickly is relatively low. And I think the opportunity for the Drupal Association is to look at other emerging regions and to put some attention into those. But we're not going to halt the consistency of having a Drupal Down Under or a Drupal South event in this region. We think it's really important to keep that momentum for the local community. And unfortunately, Josh Wahee, who was going to announce the next event had to jump on a plane back to Wellington. So the next event will be Drupal South in Wellington. We've had Drupal Down Under in Australia for the last three years, or two years, three years, if we include this one. And prior to that, there was two Drupal South events over in New Zealand. And I think on behalf of Australians, we should pull our fingers out and jump across the ditch to Wellington and support that event. So there'll be more information about that up on that website there in coming weeks as the details of the event come together. And finally, I just wanted to mention that you've got a great opportunity following this event to get involved with your local Drupal Meetup. Most Australian and New Zealand cities have a strong Drupal community now, and they all meet on a monthly basis. So to keep the enthusiasm and the connections that you've made at this event going, definitely get involved with your local Meetup if you haven't been doing that already. So we're going to move on to... Thank yous! Thank yous! I'm learning the dialect as I go along here. The international visitors might have picked up that this is Australianisms. All right. So we mentioned just a few slides ago that the importance of our sponsors. And this isn't your traditional trade show where people are coming and they're walking through exhibits. And sometimes they don't see a lot of people. And sometimes they do, but they always take the chance and they help fund us so that we can offer a reasonable ticket. So there's lots of different companies that we'd like to thank instead of listing them all, because we have limited time. I just want to make sure that you see their logos one more time and really encourage you to visit their websites and stop by and show them a little extra love by the next time that you run across them. So thanks to all of you guys. Now if you work for a company that hasn't sponsored a Drupal Con before, there's lots and lots of different levels. You don't have to spend dramatic amounts of money, although we certainly appreciate when you do. But there is a package for almost any size organization to give back to their community and help us out. So we thank you all very, very kindly for doing that. And there's also some folks that we'd like to thank as well. Along with the financial contributions of the sponsors, anybody who volunteers for a Drupal Con is a body I didn't have to pay to come and take money out of the project. So we'd like to go ahead and thank some of our local sponsors. Yeah, so in terms of how we structured organizing this event, we had a local team and then we interfaced with the Drupal Association team to bring it together. So can everyone that volunteered locally just stand up so that we can see you? And there's going to be a lot of you. So please stand up if you are volunteering in any capacity. I'm sure there's more than that. There's a lot more names on here than that. Anyone that is a very monitor? In terms of the roles that everyone fulfilled locally, I think the important thing to note is that all of the session organization and the selection of sessions was done primarily by the local team interfacing with some global leads. The website was built totally locally and there was an enormous amount of effort going into that to release it on Cod 7, which is a conference organizing distribution. And I think Robert, who put a lot of the work in there, rebuilt the site about three times to get it working on the beta. So thank you for all the effort that went into that. And definitely to the track chairs as well, I think everyone can agree that the content of this event was unparalleled. It was an amazing learning experience for everyone. And the local track chairs, they worked with the global leads to ensure that the quality of the sessions for today is of a world-class standard. And the other thing worth mentioning is that coordinating all of the volunteers was a huge task that Magda took on. And a huge thank you to Magda for that. And getting the word out via social media, manning the help desk online, looking at all the student ticket applications and scholarship applications, just general planning assistance and of course the business day that ended up being an amazing success. Thank you, Zena, for that. The people that manned the registration desk, a lot of them paid for their ticket and gave up their time throughout the day, regardless. And it's a big undertaking to come to an event and to sit there on a desk while great sessions are going on. And then the room monitors as well, they might have been stuck in a room where they weren't necessarily that interested in a session, but by volunteering they did that. And I'd like to specifically thank the people that came as scholarship recipients who put some time in to help us out with that as well. And then finally, I'd like to extend an enormous thank you to the Drupal Association. So Neil and the rest of the team, Stephanie, who was manning the desk the whole time here. Holly, who just joined us and played an integral role throughout the event. And then the team behind the scenes, back in Portland, Megan's living in Arizona. We had a few people around the country there. And the Drupal Association helped us out with all of the financials and logistics and marketing. And we ended up spending about six months working together on that. So a huge round of applause and thank you for the Drupal Association. So there's obviously quite a few people that were really integral to this event, not that any one person was any more important to any other, but if y'all wouldn't mind, just kind of turning your head just a little bit to the back of the room that way. That young lady is Stephanie Alhaj, who is my right hand. She handled COD. She handled content, working with a lot of local people as well, but she worked tremendous hours because she dealt with the COD headaches. My therapist was much, much happier that we could talk about something else for a while. And really just a tremendous thank you, specifically to Stephanie Magda as well, for working with all the volunteer contribution. Not that they're any more important than anybody else, but people who are specifically near and dear to me. And I thank you both. All right. So outside of the Association and Magda, there were definitely some people who really stood out. If anybody was impressed with how quickly session content got up on the Internet, I know I was, we have a couple, Ryan is hungry. That's Jay and Ryan that you may have seen running around through the show. They worked incredibly diligently. They flew from the backwoods of Virginia. I think it's okay to say that. The backwoods of Virginia to come out and handle all the stuff. And really, nobody does session archiving as well as they do to get it up on the Internet quite so quickly. So we certainly thank them. At the Crown Plaza, we had some wonderful support. Jay Petrie, David Valentine, and as we've mentioned, who did just amazing jobs and helping us get things organized and paid attention to us and made us all feel special. There's one other gentleman who was just a true pleasure, a local guy to work with, which was Lee Olson. If you think everything looked great, it was Lee. Stand up, Lee. Lee, stand up. We came to Lee with bizarre requests, such as, hey, Lee, I don't have a graphic design firm for the Prague event. Could you help me? I don't have graphic design posters for them, so we certainly thank Lee for his great attitude. Our printers over at Marsh Media, and I made a new friend with Tim Miller, our photographer, who we've been jadding back and forth at each other with good humor. So thank you, Tim. All right. Speakers, we had over 50 sessions here. There's just too many of them to name individually, but as I think we've written a few times, they're the reason that people come, or at least the reason that people give to their bosses is that they're the only ones who don't know what they're doing. So we thank all of our speakers for the great content that they offered. We know how much work it takes to put together a presentation. We know that we pushed you guys to meet deadlines and show us that you're really working on this before you get on the airplane. And we thank all of you folks. And of course, our keynotes, trees, you know, gee, I'm not employed without them, so I particularly appreciate them. I don't think any of us are employed without them. Basically, Kate Lundy this morning, you all saw what she was going through last night and how late she was on the media and that you came in this morning, so calm, cool, collected a good sense of humor. Let us ribber a little bit about the cricket match where I was awesome, by the way. You were awesome. It's not baseball, though. No, it obviously not, as I was ribbed mercilessly last night. But they were all fantastic, and we certainly appreciate them. It's always great to have a Dries note, so thank you. And of course, what's the point of this? Well, you guys. So a lot of you guys made really long journeys. Obviously, we thank you so much. I don't know who came for this. My flight was about 18 hours or so. I know people came from twice that far. So we thank all of you guys for coming out. You're what makes it worthwhile. You're what makes the project run. And we thank you so tremendously much. And I'd like to second that. I think you would have seen us running around busy, where we really stressed or worried about anything. And it's been a true delight to put this event on for you. And you're an amazing community of people. So thank you. I would just extend one last to Owen, my partner. Owen didn't get paid, I did. And Owen, thank you so very much. Total pleasure, man. Total pleasure. All right. So this has been fantastic, but we're not done yet. But hey, Trivia Night will be great fun. We've got Eaton hosting. And it's just going to be a great way to wrap up the event, meet new people, and have a few nice drinks together. Absolutely. And again, just reminding you that the Contribution Sprint and Sprint Workshop tomorrow is the best way that you can contribute back to Drupal in terms of raw code and documentation. And for you to have the sense of achievement contributing to Drupal 8 itself, and I think having the sense of building something together is something that you're not really going to get in many other parts of society. So like Dries said in his keynote it's about being able to do great work together. So I definitely make the effort to come to that. So that is the end. Thank you all so very much. We really appreciate you being here. We're going to see you tonight. We're going to get a couple drinks. And we'll see you tomorrow at the Code Sprint. Thank you.


What's going on guys welcome back to the channel critical overlord here, so we're gonna be talking about scream 7 in this video mostly today Majority of this rumors hasn't been officially stated by spy glass has been officially stated by paramount Hasn't been officially stated by any of the creatives involved But for months, I've had rumors about scream 7 tossed at me Some of this stuff has kind of regurgitated bits of a few things that have already been reported from other people as being rumored not confirmed by the studios in any capacity The most recent one that I got did come my way last month or like sometime earlier this month around the late June time and before I go into this any further. I Do want to shout out craving something scary for their recent video The most recent rumor I was told was kind of a refresher So something I was already told was the case before the sag strike and the WGA WGA strikes even began. So I Do again want to reiterate this stuff is rumored and can change in the blink of an eye I tend to hold certain bits of info that I'm shared hostage or just put them in a vault as I call it a mental vault Because it's worth playing the waiting game and seeing if any of this stuff ends up coming to fruition Or if it just ends up being Smoke now it doesn't always mean that if it doesn't come to fruition that the rumors were false It's just that life is very unpredictable and those rumors at the time Given the subject and the nature of them might just end up being false in the end because life happened and things change. So Christopher Landon began following scream stars early this year We know this and I even speculated that what could be going on is that maybe he's going to direct scream seven But then I was told that they had definitely talked to him actually about directing That is again an alleged rumor. He allegedly was talking To the people involved with the screen projects recently about directing screen seven This is because radio silence apparently Doesn't want to keep doing screen movies, but we're rather branch out Try other things before doing more screen projects, but they are open to staying on as Producers and according to Craven who again, you'll check out his his latest video Craven something scary Landon is now following Matthew Lillard on Twitter. So I'll address that last So for months, I've had the radio silence isn't returning to direct room revolted because of the uncertainty of the future and with the strikes That's just another hurdle for everyone involved Paramount still hasn't announced seven publicly viewer or not I know claimed that the goal was to shoot it in the fall Which I do believe was the plan and I did tell you guys that there is a completed draft allegedly viewer not earlier in the year I said they were already deep in the writing process And then I was told there's a completed draft and I do believe there is a completed draft The draft bit was worth sharing at the time to me. So I just shared it There's just too much that's up in the air right now though That could still lead to radio silence returning to direct despite them allegedly not wanting to do more screen movies for now Then around the earlier part of this month again sometime around the end of June earlier bits of July I Was told Paramount wants to start production on screen seven as soon as the strikes are over Everyone returning except Matt and Tyler See and the fact that I'm still being told that they allegedly won't direct Months later to me is a sign that even with the strikes We're still going to have new directors or a new director on board because it's always possible that Landon or someone Else managed to secure the director role for screen seven prior to the strike starting Production would have started in the fall, but now it's not and when they can the filming will start sometime in 2024 As for that other bit about everyone returning who is everyone as far as I safely assumed and tried to gain clarity on The rumored everyone would include Courtney Cox, Melissa Barrera, Jena Ortega, Jasmine Brown, Mason Gooding, Josh Shagara, Cigara, our writers and Hayden Pants here This does not mean that Nev Campbell won't be back But it also doesn't mean that she wasn't a part of this of This alleged of these alleged plans for screen seven. It doesn't mean that she won't be back And it doesn't mean that she's not a part of the plans for screen seven because I did ask for clarity on Sydney and Nev wasn't part of what they had heard about in terms of everyone being back It's very important to remember This crew That including Neve Campbell and our directors and writers. They are not obligated to keep doing these movies They are not obligated to entertain us We are just very blessed to witness their talent when they do decide to commit to these projects Screen five also again was not intended to start a trilogy Hell wasn't it originally called screen forever? Correct me if I'm wrong down in the comment section below Radio silence has made it known. We've seen this in interviews They'd love to see it continue if they aren't involved and guy even said he would love or that he loves Getting fresh blood involved. So time will tell if any of these rumors Come to be But I don't think radio silence will be back and I do have a feeling Landon got the role to direct at the time But a change of plans could always have occurred due to all this turmoil in Hollywood right now So you might not have landed you might not might not have radio silence back or because of all this turmoil in time that has passed Again, that's enough time for them to still decide. Hey, you know what? We actually do want to direct screen seven, but Landon apparently started following Matthew Lillard recently Surging the stew will return stuff, of course and I will say to that Yippie, I guess because I'm not against stew returning I'm against stew being revealed as alive because I have no confidence that you can establish a coherent story That isn't requiring the highest level of suspending logic to make it work. Thus the franchise I love it's going to end on a sad whimper and I don't want to see that I have no faith in any writer being able to construct a coherent believable narrative that stew is alive and well But you guys can let me know just think about these rumors down in the comment section below if you have no rate Of course make sure you subscribe turn on post notification in this video in the description I'll have links on my social media accounts. I am on Facebook Twitter and Instagram You can message me there, of course I'm using movies news reviews I'm into cover in the future and with all that in mind guys I will see you in your next video