Wel, rydw i'n credu'r gweithio gyfnodd iawn i'r gweithio gwirfodd, rydw i'n credu'r gwirfodd iawn i'r gweithio yn gweld. Rydw i'n gennyddi'r gweithio, ac rydw i'n credu'r gweithio'r cyd-gweithio. Rydw i'n credu'r cyd-gweithio yn gwneud hynny. Dwi'n cynnwysu gael y ddweud, a gwyfodd nhw'n gweithio'r gweithio, oherwydd dyna'n cael ei hwn. Rydw i'n gwneud hynny'n gweld fawr drwpl. ac mae'n meddwl gwaith o'r clwso ac mae'n meddwl gwaith i'r cwestiynau i'r cwestiynau yn ddyn nhw, ac mae'n meddwl i'r cyffredig ar gyfer y taw, felly rwy'n ffordd. Ond yw, yn gwybod, mae'n meddwl gwaith i'r cwestiynau, mae'r cwestiynau ar hyn o'r gwybod ohono i chi'n gofyn. Mae gennym eich lleiol iawn i'r gweithio cyhoedd, felly, rwy'n gweithio ar gyfer y ddweud hynny, ac rwy'n gweithio ar gyfer y ddweud. Rwy'n gweithio ar gyfer y ddweud. Mae'n gynghoru unedig a'r technol ddechrau. Rydyn ni'n aelaf i'r cwrs, rydyn ni'n gofynu'n cerddiad. Rydyn ni'n cerddiad ar y gyrdd yma, ymarfer o'r PhP honno. Rydyn ni'n gofynu'n gyntaf, co-founders of PHP North West, it's a PHP conference in the North West of the UK, in Manchester, and one of the jobs I had was to maintain this site, which is on WordPress. In my year at that company, I was doing some framework reskins, WordPress stuff, TruePulse stuff, it was TruePulse 6, so it was painful, but it was all good fun, because as a student you learn lots of new things and you try different things and you try things at the same time. It was all very exciting to me. For one, I didn't realise there was an industry that paid you to make websites, which is something I've been doing since I was 13, so I had easily taken eight years to realise I could get paid for something I was doing off my own back, which was kind of not fair. But it was all good and dandy, and it was really cool going to this, as part of my intern, I got to go to this conference and it was really cool because I got to meet all the speakers and the attendees, and I kept on going around going, I'm a student, what advice can you give me? What advice would you give your student self? And people were telling me things and all this stuff, and it was really inspiring, super, super inspiring, and so inspiring that when I left the company I went back, and I finished off my degree, it was all good, past, yes. And the funny thing though is I got a sign to build the next version of the PHP Northwest website, which is 2011, and it was the first time that I ever built a website for developers, and it's nothing like building a website, especially a conference website, which is all PHP developers, where they will scrutinise every pixel that's in the wrong place and how the CSS animations didn't work properly, or I just missed a bug in particular browser because I totally forgot to test it on Safari because I was on a Linux machine, and it was a great learning experience. Again, having all these people tell you that your project was amazing, but also that you'd gotten all these little things wrong was really cool. It meant that I was being co-community mentored by all these people. In 2012, when I graduated, I was actually looking for a job, as you do when you graduate, and I actually applied for a company that was doing Drupal, and a company that was doing WordPress, and I had to pick between the two because I got both the job offers. I ended up going with WordPress, and in 2012 I also ended up going to my first WordCamp, so it's the first like CMS centric sub-community event in Edinburgh. Again, it was a community that was lovely and really welcoming to this just graduate person who had gone into a project that was far too big overhead, and it was a sole developer on it, but it was fine. I got to go there and meet someone who had met on the internet who was helping me fix the things that were an issue at work on a forum. To be able to stand in front of that person and say thank you was amazing, just to realise that the person who's been typing on the internet was actually a real human, it was kind of nice. This kind of proceeded in 2013 until 2013 when my partner got a job down south, so we commuted all the way from Manchester down to Reading, which is a really cool place right by London, but Reading, even though nicknamed sometimes the Silicon Valley of the UK, doesn't have many user groups, it didn't have a PHP user group, it didn't have a WordPress user group, it doesn't have a Drupal user group, even though Acria are based there, hint. They had one which is Reading Geeks Night, and another one which is Breaking Borders, which was more for like front-end design-y-y thing, so it wasn't really aimed at me, and then there was like sys-up stuff, there was like this whole bit in the middle that was just missing, and then one thing I learnt over this time is that I'm a community addict, I love meeting new people in the community, I love learning from people, I love just hanging out with people and hearing the stories of how they got to where they are and the journeys and the tries and tribulations that they've had on their way, because every one of us has a different journey, and it's something that I've become really passionate about because I really appreciate the fact that the PHP Northwest community was there for me when I started, that they were welcoming. In 2014 it was my last year of running PHP Northwest as an organizer because we've done self, it's kind of annoying to travel back and forth for a conference and organizing and stuff, so it was my last year, it was really really sad, and it was the first time at a PHP conference where I had found that people were laughing at the word WordPress and it wasn't nice. Before that I had noticed that a lot of WordPress people that I had met didn't really go to PHP conferences and because it was my last PHP conference as an organizer I gave them my word that this was the nicest PHP community that they'll ever meet and I would guarantee them that they would have a good time, and then for those people to turn up to my conference and then listen to Aquino who mentions the word WordPress in a completely acceptable manner, and then the hauntire room laughing, laughing with the joke or laughing at the joke doesn't matter, they were laughing. I actually treated this out straight away, I was heartbroken, I was not even heartbroken really, I was fuming, and people who were at that conference know how fuming I was because at the end of the conference the other organizers got me on stage, gave me a microphone which was such a bad idea and said okay can you make a few words and I was like are you sure you want me to run after today's like stuff and they're like yeah so off I went, and this is actually where this talk comes from because I realized at that moment that is a real problem with the way that in our silo communities we're behaving amongst each other and it's really unfair because like I'm trying my hardest to bring other people in and then you're just making me really upset and it just makes me really sad and more like that person on there. So as part of some research I was doing, I'm not very scientific, I just tweeted out this tweet, doing a very non-scientific research, how do you as the non-word press community perceive the word press community? And I got some good responses from the glimpse I get through the feed, a very large, vibrant, active, passionate group of people or very positive words, fantastic, then you get stuff like this or not good enough to be a real developer, hmm it's a pretty sad response just as someone pointed out and it's even a more sad response when I go to the biggest word camp in the like word press calendar at the time in 2014 which is word camp San Francisco, I speak to one of the core developers of word press and ask them to submit a paper, a cover paper to a PHP conference in the UK and their response was I'm too scared to go they will mock me for being a word press developer. This is a core developer who stands on stage at word press events and talks about Docker and PHP 7 and HHVM and says this is like a really cool way to build your servers and you know tells all the latest stuff yet they are not willing to do the same talk at a PHP conference because they're scared of being mocked, there is a problem there, more sad faces, the mocking of word press by any other community is like watching my parents have a fight every day and my parents used to fight a lot and it's not a nice place to be as a child you don't want your parents fighting as a child of the open source community because that's what I really feel like I am you know I grew as a developer being in the open source community the open source community has given me my ability to be a developer every time I've had a problem even when I was at university during my dissertation I was doing my project and I didn't know how to do something so I asked the community on IRC and someone sent me a library and I was like great I'll just attribute it to you thanks having all these people who I consider my parents fighting is really really bad now I was here yesterday at the community summit and I met a bunch of people who said actually like Drupal get this is a lot too which also makes me really upset because the reality of it is the mocking of any technology by anyone is like watching my parents have a fight every day I don't really see why we have to mock each other or fight about which one's better the fight is not with open source projects it should be against priority software why are we fighting amongst ourselves I don't care if you're doing Drupal, typo 3, Juma, Magento, Wordpress you're doing open source and that's amazing you're sharing the information you know but when we are mocking ourselves amongst each other priority software is just getting off easy software does what we tell it to do or what we teach it to do with today's AI the thing that are fighting are people now it was really cool today because I was in the pre-note if you missed the pre-note totally watch it because it was really funny and they use an old Irish proverb I can't pronounce that but it says two people short on the road that's what it means and the idea is that if you work together you can get further and it's really really true people make the community you are the community so the only thing on you on me on all of us to make a community that we're proud of an open source community the Drupal community has great initiatives that have already been in place for a while the getting off the island thing was amazing the gopish p5 thing back in the day was also really cool that started in the Drupal community the fact that you've taken on symphony framework components and you're having these discussions in an open is really really inspiring to other communities but there is more to be done there is no silver bullet I'll just give you that for free but I do believe that multi-dimensional problems which this is needs a multi-dimensional solution so I've come up with some suggestions um and I would love to hear if anyone else has other suggestions or other things that they're doing to try and bridge these communities and when I talk about bridging communities I'm not saying that you have to go and live in these other communities I'm just saying like go and visit them every so often so first and foremost events I mentioned php north west but php north west the conference also has a user group also named php north west um and it's really cool because I met the this one this one and this one and there are Drupalers I met these three people of php north west Philip Mike and Eli and then this guy here was the guy who interviewed me for the job at the Drupal company that I nearly took and the sole reason I nearly took that job was because I really liked him as an interviewer sole reason I would nearly took that job so my life could be very very different in a different open source community and it's really cool that I met these people these Drupalers at a php event because that was my gateway into the Drupal community when I was doing those Drupal six projects they were the people I asked I was like hey Philip you're a Drupaler how do you do this it's great to have those connections user groups or if you're in the wordpress community we call them meters because yeah we're special um they're great places to meet each other on a monthly basis in your local area and there's loads of them in both communities all over the world there's also Drupal camps in your local area but there's also word camps as well nearly most open source projects have something similar in that in many regions of the world so definitely check it out there's also conferences like this but I think from what I've learnt yesterday was community summits inviting other people other members from other projects into your community summits is a great way to share oh how do you do this what's your solution to that because that was what yesterday was filled with it was for me really interesting to see how Drupal ecosystem is set up but also equally interesting to see what questions people had about wordpress and be able to share my experiences in the wordpress community now I know that going to a word camp is probably not going to be interesting to go to the talks but you might want to like meet the people and see the community firsthand so why don't you volunteer I would love to do more volunteering in other projects and it's one thing that I've decided that I'm going to do more of because yesterday when I came here I started taking pictures and I wanted to know how organisers would do and stuff and running their communities well if you're a volunteer you get to see that first hand you're part of that team so if you want to be interested in bridging those communities in a people manner then volunteer at other events that are open source if you are a community leader you should also be looking at community leadership summit the next one is happening London in about a month's time there's other things that you can do as well documentation I noticed is kind of hard to come by a lot of people mentioned yesterday that there was not many much documentation for Drupal camps and Drupal meetups but wordpress has actually done a lot of work on our word camp documentation this thing is crazy long and pretty much a book on how to run a word camp and all you need to do is replace the word word camp and word press with the word Drupal camp and Drupal and you're probably going to get lots and lots of great resources there so if you're looking for resources ask other communities what resources they have and learn from them now with dates of our events it'd be really cool if we could consider our what when we set our dates um there's a project which is open source and it's run by one person really um called open tech calendar and it's a really great concept but it isn't getting much traction for various reasons um but even without this open source project you should know your local community members and ask them have you got an event community that you're planning could we share dates so that we don't clash or let's put them on weekend after each other so people can fly in for both know things like that make a great idea joint events as well running a joint event with a local user group is really cool Drupal austria did this last year where the security team members from wordpress type of three and Drupal had been talking to each other about the work and it was really interesting to have all those people with all their expertise come together in one location and it was a huge success php.ug is a great place to find your local php user groups and you are a php cms the same way wordpress is so go and have a look at what your newest php user group is there's also something that we did once really coolly in manchester which is um open sprint days um i was talking to mike and he mentioned how the Drupal open sprints always have the same people and i was complaining how the wordpress contribute today which is our word for sprints um basically it was full of newbies and we'd really like to have more people like who are like more mature and like being in the project a bit longer and we're debating how these run so we got together and just went let's just open an open source sprint project and sprint day so we invited anyone who had an open source project to come along we one of us got the food the other one got the venue that's all you really need for sprint tables chairs internet you're good to go um and even the junior community got involved and it was really really cool because when you're on your own and doing a sprint with just your team there's only a certain amount of you there which means that the buzz in the room isn't very high there isn't that like clacking and like the the talking and all the all like the the energy that comes from a large group of people but when you had all these different open source projects come together there was that energy we were working on completely different tables completely different projects yet their energy was feeding into our energy and it was such an inspiration we're i mean talking to Robert who's part of the drew power London group and we're talking about doing these quarterly again but it would be really cool if other projects if other places across the world would do it too because i think it's something that would really really help to bridge the community gap a little bit more also open camps um i went to the first open camp in the UN um back in July and it was basically just full of all these open source projects it's kind of like fosdem in the Europe if you've not been to fosdem that's another one that you should really go to really good fun um but these these events which have multiple different open source projects coming together is something that we all should be like working towards for one it saves venue higher costs so i'm all game for that because that's a lot of pain and when you in doubt about doing a joint event then during the summer have a barbecue barbecue is all a great way to bring people together in a really relaxed manner everyone's not having to say this is better that is better and everyone's there to enjoy and most people i do believe need to eat some food in some manner so a barbecue is a great way to host a group of different people and get them to mingle together maybe do that drew pole bingo that you have downstairs that was a great way to find someone to do different things that'd be a really fun way to have a barbecue if you are courageous and i hope you are then do a field trip go to their user groups and ask people how they solve their problems both drew pole and wordpress has accessibility issues we both have translation issues i bet you will both have security issues and i bet you will both have community issues it's really interesting to hear how other people are doing it so we can say oh would that work for us would that not work for us and discuss those things so we can learn from each other it's also really cool when you invite outside community people to speak at your events like me hello um but i would love to see more of this um both on a local level and on a large scale it brings in new perspectives and one thing for sure in the wordpress community whenever i go somewhere else to speak they always say oh yeah i should be more like that i should go to my local drew pole community because they realize that if i've managed to come here and then not be killed by leaving then it must have must have had a good time and i definitely will be telling them i did because i do believe that sharing your knowledge and sharing your solutions means that everyone can submit to their local community events i mean no one can tell you that your information is wrong when you do go to these other events bring back the knowledge you gain it's one thing to just go to these events but it's another thing to talk about these events that you're going to so one thing that i do do when i go to another projects event is then go back and talk about drew pal con and the community summit i spent two hours yesterday with the community team saying what the drew pal community summit was like and how it all worked because it works differently to the way the wordpress one works and they were like oh that's really interesting two hours it was like 1 am in the morning with the americans it was crazy and another thing try building a side project on another platform is one thing to be looking and listening and hearing about this stuff it's another thing to try it out i installed drew pal a i love it compared to drew pal six that was the last experience i had and so my perception of drew pal six uh drew pal in general was all about drew pal six but when i tried eight i was like got it this is way better i'm grateful that someone was persistent on me trying drew pal eight because otherwise my perception of drew pal would have been wrong it's really important to compare and contrast what's going on today as well as previously and making sure that our perceptions are up to date with the latest versions now i'm not saying that you need every single minor point but every so often maybe once twice a year check it out it's not a bad idea again people are the community so when we're talking about people we need to talk about inclusivity inviting everyone to the party and introducing everyone to everybody it's really hard sometimes you just kind of see someone and you think yeah i know them but i'm not sure and it's kind of scary it's really nice if you notice someone like that to make the first step for them and just introduce people like hi what's your name i'm you look like you want to be introduced to someone i'll do the middle manning and that's a really nice way to bring the community together and make sure that we actually have a community that is talking to each other it's also good to have recognition for things that are not code on the wordpress project we have these little badges we have different teams and if you've been a speaker you get a speaker's badge and then because i'm on the community team i get a community badge as well but depending on what part of the team and what things you have done you get lots and lots of different badges recognize that things are not just about code words are one of the most powerful tools we have let's think about the words we choose when we use when we communicate to each other we're able to choose our words but we're not able to choose the way it affects other people and that's something that we have to be very careful of especially when you are trying to welcome new people because you never know who it is that you're talking to i'm a wordpress engineer when i tell this to people some people are saying uh wordpress so so insecure so blah blah blah and which don't get me wrong i understand but it's not really the right word that i would like use it's not cool to be like belittling other things when people say that to me i'm always i was questioned why why do they have this perception of wordpress and then they tell me the last time they tried wordpress was that like wordpress two points something and it's like you do realize wordpress project is 13 years old it's quite old two point or is um you know a decade ago say why did you say that and it'll be really cool to keep an open mind or even better don't reply to someone with uh your wordpress instead welcome it was really cool yesterday majority of the people got it right when i said wordpress everyone's like oh that's really cool i'm glad you could make it we can learn lots from you and i was like oh okay cool they're not going to like take off my head i'm glad i'm here i'm i feel safe and that's really really important and that's the kind of experience that when i get i'm going to tell other people about diversity is a major thing that a lot of people in tech talk about i'm going to say that diversity has to be part of the plan not an afterthought but i'm also going to talk about diversity of technology the tool choices the opens the operating systems we need to respect people's choices on what they do because they're not on a mac doesn't make them better or worse just makes their choices for whatever reason their choices respecting people's choices doesn't mean that you'd have to agree with it just means being respectful of those choices i did a talk at alterconf a month ago in Dublin just down the road called building an accessible community and there i talked about all the different things that we did at work out in london i would love for you to check out the slides they're at this url which i will link to and it shares lots and lots of stories of how to build an accessible community the gist of the accessible community is that if you want to look at diversity and and therefore include as many people as possible if you make it accessible to as many people as possible then you get a more diverse pool that was the logic behind the idea and work out london was the playground for that idea and the results are on that slide and the ultimate underlying point of it all is make accessibility a first class citizen of your events of your project and people will come now swag one thing that i want to talk about swag with do it right or don't do it at all is as simple as that swag done wrong is not worth the energy the cost of swag done wrong swag done right people talk about for lifetime so instead of pushing all your company's money into swag that's done wrong just do it right or save up and do something special next time when you have a more bigger budget knowledge sharing i mentioned before respecting people's choices and the reason why i say that is because people want to learn they really want to learn i wanted to learn everyone in this event and wants to learn you know more than someone unless and someone else in this room let alone this event when speakers are on stage they're just telling you the experiences that they figured out beforehand there is nothing stopping anyone in this room standing on this stage and sharing their experiences of what they've had that's all i'm doing there's also some really cool things that the drip hole group i've learnt do including mentoring team which they have a mentor orientation right after this talk so if you're thinking about mentors on which i highly recommend go to the mentor orientation it's one way to pass on your knowledge make sure that someone doesn't jump through that pothole that you had to jump through there's also php mentoring as well and if you want to learn something speak up tell your local organisers that you want to learn this subject because a lot of the time local organisers don't know what people want to learn about and therefore just pick things as pick things come through ask questions ask lots of questions no question is too stupid and it's so important this slide i wrote it again no question is too stupid at php north west at the first event i ever went to i asked the question they do a talk on arrays and i asked the question why is array pull and array pop and not array pull and array push and i was a student at the time just in my second year and the whole room went quiet the whole room i was like if i just broke the internet all these professionals have just gone quiet on me this is something oddly wrong with this and they realised that i was looking at arrays horizontally and they should be looking at it vertically but it proves the point no question is too stupid being a newbie like today's prino pointed out they have this open-mindedness attitude towards a project and it's something that we shouldn't be embracing and celebrating so with the attitude i've mentioned a few times welcome don't be an at all and let's leave the door open we can educate new people and all people we can support them when they come in and out of the industry because people come back and forth all the time and we can be mentors no matter how long have you been here if you've been in the Drupal community if you've been in the open source community for more than a day you know more than somebody already we can be cheerleaders for people trying and for people who are doing the work we can also be cheerleaders for people who are thinking about joining our communities because when we're being cheerleaders and they see that we're happy people and welcoming people they want to join us but also be respectful of other people's opinions be empathetic to the fact that you might just not agree with someone and guide them to where discussions are happening and also to a good event and if you're doing this already then amazing please share your experiences work out of London it's going to be happening in march I would love for people in all communities to come and share their experiences there so just to wrap up bridges are not built overnight there is no quick fix of this but brick by brick we can create a two-way dialogue in our sibling communities in our open source community and share the knowledge and experience we have with Docker with my sql with all these other things that we have in common but bridges also need maintenance it's up to us to keep our doors open and the bridge is usable if we don't maintain those bridges those bridges will break apart and that's important that both sides of that bridge are maintained we can improve our open source community one step at a time because multi-dimensional problems need multi-dimensional solutions so I ask you what solutions do you have the Drupal community has a saying come for the community stay come for the code stay for the community but I like to change this a little bit come for the code and stay for the open source community instead go away my a good which I think is thank you in irish I'd like to take any questions thanks for staying and fans for listening they're sorry the microphone is over there and the AV people said you have to go and speak in that microphone so they can take um they can record the questions hey Jenny uh Damian McKenna for the recording can you please switch back to the slide um with the info on the mentoring sessions because they're not on the schedule wickwell meeting for days one is it one o'clock wickle meeting for excellent yes this should be your next point of location so they're on the boss session yeah thank you um I did have two quick questions um so do you have examples of swag done wrong without having to give names or anything but the things that you found that you saw so the easiest example is uh t-shirts um there's nothing no reason why as organisers we can't take um so at work at london we do a thing where we have a chat box which says I understand that t-shirts are not guaranteed but we're taking t-shirt sizes anyway just in case we do do them and then underneath we then have all the sizes possible and then um I have seen other events where they actually put the actual sizing chart because a medium in the US and a medium in the UK are completely two different things um so that's really cool and there's nothing wrong with the organisers then collaborating all that data together and then giving it to sponsors to say this is what we expect if you're doing one at a time so they they know the percentage wise of how many female t-shirts how many male t-shirts of which sizes and which particular sizing chart to expect so they can get better swag because otherwise it's wasted textiles and we've got plenty of that already cool the other question was um have you had an experience with um either a resistance to having events during the week or preference for the weekend ones um I've been to both um Pycon runs kind of like this where it's a long-term one uh I wouldn't say it's usually the issue of time of day um although if you are a event that's trying to bring more people from a different community it's always a good idea to look at what kind of events they have and when so the community would like in the word for us community we're used to things happening during the weekend something during the week usually is kind of hard because you're working so you have to justify it to work so it depends on the kind of people you are going for um but in general like you're not the only people who do things during the week one of the biggest issues when I was talking to like one of my colleagues about coming here because we have a workamp EU which is kind of similar to this and I said oh you should come to Drupalcom because it's their version of work on EU and we could learn a thing or two and they were like 500 pounds is a lot of money um and so that actually was the bigger factor because obviously we would have to fly in and stuff like that and so it's all about cost factor I don't know if we could do a kind of like buddy system where we give like two free tickets to like different open source projects or something to like kind of at least get them to entice to come along or something um but I'm thinking from the top of my head here so I'm all ears for any solution that we can come up with thank you thank you hey um so my question is about um kind of organisers you mentioned there's a couple of events that seem to be specifically around organisers and them sharing their own kind of experience and resources um where is the best place to find out about that information um good question um because of my community addict my twitter feed is basically all organisers telling me when things are going to happen there's various lots and lots of various different spreadsheets that people have tried and there's loads and loads of different like lists um so I tend to just keep my ear on the ground I guess I should be showing this in some form or manner um yeah let's let's come up with a solution for that um yeah but there is one that if you're if you're a user group organiser or a conference organiser one that you should check out is comf comf it's based in the UK was in Bristol last year I don't know if they're doing another one but they that whole thing was talking about it was literally an event for organisers it was so meta it was funny um and it's where everyone shares their pain points of how to sponsor and all this stuff um but yeah I'm I'm more than happy to get around a table and like come up with a solution that like everyone would be happy with cool thank you no problem hi Johnny oh I'm short compared to Mike yeah so am I snapped um I'm Mike Inelo um so there's been talk over the years in the Drupal community and this is kind of a wordpress question for you but or community community question for you about how we can better surface non-code contributions and I saw you had a slide up there of I guess the wordpress uh profile page with a couple of badges yeah I'm not even sure which way I'm going no go the wrong way um we'll get there well while you're frantically yeah carry on so my question is are those badges are they awarded is not the right word are they given to the user or are the user selected given to the user okay and I guess let me hang on a second given to is that the correct way point in it so I guess your question is how do how do users get these badges sure okay um so if you have spoken at any word camp um you're um in the word camp website you you get you get your username gets added to it and then that gets linked to your profile and so it knows that you've been a speaker so you only need to speak once and you'll get the speakers badge if you're on the community team um the community one either you've been an organizer of a word camp and therefore you're on the organizers list on the word camp which you as a team you'd input that information in or you're you're someone like me who works on the community team as a core contribution to the um thing so you get added to the list as well um so the core one which you get which is actually just um two arrow signs um that's the core team one and if you do any patches or even like do a patch and then it gets removed or whatever like there's some way that they use svn to basically pull those out and then make sure that all the usernames have those in there different teams have different rules most of them are you've done something once therefore you get this some of them are not automatic automatic yet um but the meta team which is our kind of mothership that looks after us all is working through making all that automated um the problem with that is some teams want it to be like you do three contributions to translations and then you get the badge so each team makes up the rules and then the meta team builds it um so yeah um it's pretty cool um small game of creation of it some people don't like gamefinding it some people do but it's nice to be recognized for things that are not code related ones because code is easy code you can just get the URLs but even in the code one they're trying to work out how to how to have recognition for people who contribute by raising bug tickets and not only bug tickets but then also testers so how do you recognize testers and curate people and stuff like that so it becomes this really big problem that we haven't got the full answer to but i know that the Drupal community are in discussions of this a similar problem but um pro tip uh work camp europe is hosting the we have our community community summits um bi annually or annually kind of but the next one is going to be in paris june next year i do believe it's june um but yeah one of my plans is to invite some of the Drupal community because i think we're having a lot of the same conversations and even if we go with different solutions having the same having those like you know bouncing off conversations like i was doing with damian and mike just then it's a great way just to spearhead those conversations to see what people are thinking about um so yeah i would love to see some of the Drupal community there and if i have any power over it it will happen all right well no one's behind me so i'm going to keep asking questions yeah go for it so just because i'm lazy um are those badges clickable like if you were to click on like a speaker badge would you see all of the oh i don't think so that would be such a cool thing all right can someone like remind me to to put that as in as a ticket that would be that would make total sense so you'd be click on it then it'll go on to the make the the team of what it is and like how it's to get involved oh that is so cool yes we should do that okay um my list of things to do is getting longer i can see this happening now go on all right so then you know you said whenever someone speaks at a at a word camp um the automatically get the badge so i think that's um but correct me if i'm wrong i'm just kind of confirming this that's a result of the fact that the word camps are kind of their their websites at least are kind of centrally run yes that's correct okay so in the Drupal community we don't have that so that's a bit more of an issue for us where you know camp sites are independently built and run so we don't have that central clearinghouse for that type of data yeah it's it's it's a hard problem to solve based on your um what my understanding of the current Drupal situation is but open source projects are amazing because any person can make a change and so if this is the problem in your community now then the question you should be asking yourself is are you going to allow this be a problem in your community in the future or as a community or are you going to fix this in some manner away maybe there's some o-off way of like using the Drupal.org thing so it's all in the Drupal.org profiles that would be really nice um obviously i don't know how the system's completely set up i'm completely taken from the top of my head but this is what i love about open source communities it's like we can have a conversation and come up with crazy ideas and then basically go which one's going to stick um there is nothing to stop you or anyone in this room or anyone here in the Drupal community or the open source community make that patch and start making that change or even at least start having that discussion all right do we still have more time oh i'm sorry i'll ask one more question then i'll sit down so is it about the badges stuff i've got a point of information actually about that um it's sort of but go ahead okay well it's just to say that um there was a discussion of of the badges back in Drupal.com Amsterdam yeah and that the video for that is probably still up and um it was a proposal by Rachel Lawson uh to use the open badges standard which is a kind of a mozilla standard for maximally distributed badges so you don't have to rely on Drupal.org serving it you don't have to rely on a particular provider um just that talk still up and Rachel is going to be in the mentor orientation next so the slide that was up just now about that so if anyone wanted to talk to her after this they can definitely find her in the next session yeah i mean like one of the things i really like about um wordpress um we call them ticket champions is that we have a group of people who are champion one ticket on the track ticket and basically say what is the status of this how can we remove this and that's literally that only job to keep an eye on that one ticket that is bugging them for the life so if this is something they are passionate about if you can't do the code if you can't have if you don't have the facilities to like physically make it happen one thing you can do is just go so where is this up to because things get forgotten things people forget to talk about it and things get forgotten so something like that is really cool we need people to talk about it make sure that it becomes like important enough to actually get um become a higher priority for the team go for it last question so i'm just curious what is the wordpress community team responsible for what's their purview um the wordpress community team is responsible supporting and distributing our global sponsorship money we have a pool of money um that we use to sponsor um and to give sponsor grants to um work camps across the world when you become a work camp and also to our meetups so we will pay for their meetup.com accounts when they join the official chapter account and also venues when they do a submission to the venue costs it's based on the big mac cost because we believe that we want our community organisers to concentrate on looking after the community rather than running your after sponsorship which is one of the hardest things you have to do so if we can take a little bit of that burning by giving them 20% 60% of their budget and also like any um any excess of that money as well so if you over if you under budget um and then you've got a bit extra it never comes out of an organisers pocket that's kind of the ethos around it um we tell organisers to try not mean that that doesn't mean that they get to like burn through all the money and burn from all the the part the part but it does mean that they have some financial stability um and support there and also in the us we have an insurance for all of the us and north america's work camps so that they are all insured automatically um in the uk we have to buy them ourselves and in different places so we have to do different things um we also distribute swag which includes lanyars stickers and badges um and they get sent to all of them we basically say we know you've got an event coming up would you like some swag they reply back with a snail mail address and a phone number because customs is a pain and and then send all that through um and also we have a support channel open offices where organisers for both meet-up and work camps come together and ask questions sometimes we like other meet-up organisers and other work camp organisers will chime in and say hey we did this for singapore and we did this for bulgaria and we did this for you know oslo um maybe this will work in your local area and then sometimes you know the community says oh i heard about you know the japanese community go out for sushi as one of their meet-up things when that you know people have these issues so there's a centralized community of community organisers and stuff like that um and we also try and support any um events that are happening where people come up with new ideas so um before i even joined the community team i came up with the idea of a contributor day that was a standalone event um not attached to a work camp which is what the original thing was um and said oh the Manchester community is going to do this on our own we don't need like all these fancy things um and i was out of pocket by 200 pounds because of the venue and then someone said how much is this costing you and i was like oh just a venue um actually i should probably get some food too and they were like oh you should get some sponsorships and my solution to get sponsorship was to sell tickets the tickets meant absolutely nothing you didn't need the ticket to go to the event it was just you can buy tickets in a in an orders of 10 pounds to basically pay off and there was a maximum of 20 tickets and i was like if you want to give me my money back this is how you're giving me my money back and it was really really cool it was really simple um but yeah it's like um sometimes i just run off with things and people have to point this out to me um so no things like that the community team were just currently discussing how to expand our financial aid across more events like that because when i was doing that there was no financial aid for like these special events that happened that people are trying to celebrate their community with uh we also do um work out mentoring as well and meet up mentoring as well and we also look after any meetups on workouts that go into disarray so you know when they um go into dormant state um we try and find a new organiser and like find out why things are happening and support those as well we've also had to deal with um political riots and all this other stuff that people get the wrong end of the stick so we help write various legal stuff which is kind of boring but yeah lots and lots of support for our organisers because they are the grass root point of contact and so it's really important that we support those people any other questions sorry i do realise it was a really long answer cool i think it's lunchtime or mentoring time if you're going to be a mentor orientation for the next few days i would love to talk to you all i will be here till tomorrow morning so um please come and find me if you have any other questions thank you so much


Okay. Hopefully, if you can see the slides, that's great. If you can't, you will be able to follow along just by listening to the discussion. This is not a lot of slides. There was just an introduction slide to tell you who we all are. And then a big picture slide about the different use cases, but they'll be posted in a hyper ledger global forum after our session. So you can download them from there if you're missing them right now. Okay, so let's go ahead and start it. Thanks, everybody for joining this. My name is Mary Hall. I'm the director of product marketing at Cipher Trace. We're coming together today to talk about how blockchain has been a catalyst for transformation. It has helped bring transparency and fairness to different societal goals through technology. And today I want to ask each of our speakers to share some of the use cases that they have worked on to show how this has been accomplished. So I'm going to go around our panel and ask each person to introduce themselves and tell us a little bit about what they do with their company and we'll start with Lucia. Thank you, Mary, and thank you for the invitation to participate. My name is Lucia and I am engagement lead and innovation lead at lag chain and just to give a brief explanation, lag chain is an initiative that is born from the IDV lab and we are a blockchain infrastructure public permissioned blockchain networks. And we have up to date 100 nodes deployed in the network and more than 50 projects. So I'm happy to speak about the projects and the use cases of our network. Great. Go next. Yes, sure. Thank you, Mary. My name is John Powell. I'm an executive director of strategic initiatives at consensus. I've been a consensus for three years now. It's one of the largest pure play blockchain companies. And I'm excited, excited to join everyone. Thank you. My name is Krishnamurti and I'm at Oracle and which includes blockchain and I do product management for emerging products. Very happy to be here at this panel and looking forward to sharing our experiences. Thank you. We're going to go ahead and kick it off. And the first thing I wanted to ask you all about was supply chain. That's definitely one of the biggest uses for blockchain technology for tracking and tracing goods as supply chains become more and more complex. You know, we actually still see people using paper based processes and not having everything digitized yet. Lucia, I wondered if you could tell us a little bit about the agribusiness consortium that you've worked at on a blockchain and how it has been managed with supply chain. Of course, in lag chain, we do think we are the network for inclusion. So we work with small agriculture and farmers and with different cooperatives around the Latin America and the Caribbean. We have hosted different traceability projects on the supply chain and the value chain of our product from its harvest, where it has been manufactured, how it has been transported and where it has been distributed. This is very important for certain goods. We work, for example, with coffee, with sugar or with alpaca wool. But now we're also starting to work with the vaccine, the COVID-19 vaccine. So all this traceability of the supply chain is very, very important and we want to assure the transparency and the security that blockchain gives us. So nowadays we are working in different aspects because depending on the good information introduced into blockchain will be different. For example, for agriculture and farmers, it's very important the size and the quality of the land, but maybe for vaccines it's more important the way of transporting the goods. So depending on the value chain and on the product, the process are different. But in the end, the traceability is very, very important and we are happy to host all these projects and have them on top of our network. Hey, thanks for sharing that. P.J., could you tell us a little bit about some of the Oracle use cases for supply chain and sustainability? Yeah, definitely. I think one of the engagements that we have done at Oracle that I want to highlight is engagement. Retraced is a platform that supports businesses from their goal to supply chain visibility. Their goal is to provide transparency and sustainability by having great visibility on the entire supply chain. And they use Oracle blockchain along with other Oracle offerings including autonomous database to collect data from different points of supply chain so that they could provide full visibility to customers. So one of the use cases is one of the Mexico-based designer who actually designs leather woven voraches. It's one of those very traditional design shoe that targets to deliver socially and ecologically sustainable products. And they use a retraced platform to keep track of the sources material as well as the working conditions and the types of traffic that have gone into the product and the skills that have gone into making the product. So it actually provides the complete visibility to the buyer. From the buyer's perspective, they actually know where the product is coming from and it provides sufficient satisfaction of learning the right way for them. So there's a lot of those use cases that retraced. And then I just want to point out one of them in this panel and the audience and the retraced website to learn more. Thanks, Vijay. I own a pair of canna shoes and they're fabulous shoes and I love that the deli is organic and I can check that on a mobile app and make sure and I know who made the shoes. So it's very cool. And now I want to turn to Johnna for a minute to talk about the work Consensus did with blockchain for hurricane relief. Can you share a little bit about that story with us? Yes, absolutely, Mary. I love these social impact use cases. They're just so inspirational and Consensus has done a ton of projects, some of them public, some of them not public. So I'll just share this one. So the project was called project unblocked. And that was a blockchain project for humanitarian cash transfers, a cash and voucher assistance humanitarian solution which enables more speed and efficiency and transparency and financial aid for disaster relief. And so the focus island was Vanuatu. And like many Pacific Islands is vulnerable to extreme weather events. And in that time, that's when you actually need to get aid to people right away. They can't be going to the bank getting a voucher waiting for money. And usually it takes, you know, at least one or two days to get relief in the traditional in the traditional way of doing it. So the problem solved was how can NGOs developed a cash and voucher assistant program that connects cash with vulnerable people instantly. So consensus worked with Oxfam, which is a nonprofit company, they engaged Sempo and consensus to launch this project. It was a pilot built on the Ethereum blockchain main net. And what it did was it connected disaster victims to cash aid much, much faster than the traditional mechanism through pre funded voucher cards. And what that also did was it provided real time visibility and transparency into the flow of funds. And that also helped prevent fraud. Yeah, it's perfect solution for getting aid to people quickly, you know, in time of disaster because blockchain is real time delivery of information and payments, you know, which we did not see in the traditional financial system. Yeah, I want to turn it back to you since, you know, John mentioned the transfer of aid and relief. You've seen in your work with blockchain about transfer of cross border payments and working with payments to help disadvantaged people. Yes, we recently published a POC paper on a technical paper on the project we did with City Innovation Labs, where we created a project of cross border payments with tokenized money. We tokenized the US dollars, fiat money and we transferred them to the bank in Republic of Dominicana and they received pesos Dominicanos, which is the money in that country. So the idea is to enable the cross-border payments through blockchain technology to reduce cost to make the transactions more secure and more transparent and of course has half a possibility of the money. It is very important for use cases such as for example remittances and many other international payment transactions that individuals or companies or even entities, financial entities have to make through this technology. Yeah, it's pretty important. I mean, it also eliminates third parties, right? And other excess charges when you take that middleman out and you're just going peer to peer. Did you see that there was some savings there with the system you developed? Did you direct the question to me or to Beyi? Oh, to meet you directly and then if John wants to chime in about it, this technology that was used. So is it for Jonah? I would say I'm not personally familiar with the technology that was used in the blockchain use case. So if you want to provide those details. No, don't worry. Yeah, that's right. We use Hyperledger VESU technology based on Ethereum protocol, but therefore with consensus. And I mean, the experience was great and we are now also publishing a quantum safe project also on VESU and on Ethereum protocol. So I mean, we are happy with the work we are developing with consensus. It has been a great technological partner and in this case, a specific case of cross-border payments. The results of the POC were incredible and Hidibank as one of the actors. I mean, the results were exceptional. The APIs were accomplished. So I have to say that the work consensus has always been excellent in this. Yeah, while we are talking about the use of Dictator, you have been working on that and would love to hear your thoughts on that. Yeah. In case you didn't hear her, her mic dropped out a little bit. She's asking me to talk about the work with financial institutions that Cybertrace is doing to help prevent ransomware attacks, cyber attacks, fraud, theft. So Cybertrace has developed software as a service for doing investigative work and due diligence and preventing not only detecting when there's been suspicious activity in the transfer of money or cryptocurrency, but also being able to proactively help financial institutions, crypto exchanges and government entities to take action so that when they pinpoint some suspicious activity, they can actually take steps to prevent something drop-dye or happening or hacks taking place. So we were in an article this week in the Wall Street Journal talking a little bit about this since it's such a hot topic right now with ransomware and the colonial pipeline. And yes, they did pay the ransom, but then they were able to use forensic tools later to trace down who the hackers were. So it's another cool use of blockchain technology because with blockchain, you can drill down and get a lot more information about these activities and you would ordinarily be able to do. Okay. So, John, I want to ask you to talk a little bit more about the work consensus has been doing in the social sector. Sure. Absolutely. Absolutely, Mary. So we're doing some work in carbon offsets. I'm not a liberty to say a lot more at the moment, but suffice it to say we're helping to increase transparency and quality around carbon offsets and we're excited to be doing the work with really great partners. Another project that consensus has engaged on is Project I2I and that was an enterprise Ethereum payment network to drive financial inclusion in the Philippines through more accessible and more efficient domestic transactions. And you may or may not know that 70 million Filipinos have severely limited access to both the domestic and global financial ecosystem. And that can be very, very difficult for people who are sending payments globally or internationally to their families or getting payments from their families internationally. It's very expensive. So operating outside of the banking system hampers upward mobility, long-term opportunities, perpetuates poverty. So Project I2I, it was a platform that worked to connect rural banks as well as national commercial banks to the Philippine Central Bank, helping those remote banks integrate with the domestic financial system while also improving banking access for local citizens. So I thought that was a pretty exciting initiative. It is. And it, you know, it's got to be empowering people too to use probably blockchain apps and mobile apps to transfer money and save money on fees that way, I would think. Right. And now you look at what's happening with El Salvador where everybody's essentially banking themselves through their mobile phone with Bitcoin. So it's all evolving. Right. Right. That was big news today about El Salvador, except Bitcoin is currency. Luchia, I wanted to turn back to you and talk about, you know, the work with blockchain again. Do all of the members have access to mobile devices, smartphones? Are they able to access the technology and do transfers and payments that way? Is that something you've been involved in? This is one of the challenges we found in the agribusiness consortium. We have small farmers that are normally based on rural areas. So it's difficult sometimes to find the, you know, all the actors in the value chain and enable them with smartphones, Wi-Fi and all the required technology to be able to work with a blockchain. So yes, it's a challenge we've had because as I said, we work with inclusion. Sometimes our impact is on rural areas and it's difficult to find over there, you know, the adequate technological infrastructure. So we have this balance, but I think we were able to manage and to finally, you know, work with them in order to enable them with this kind of materials. But also going back to the cross-border payments, it's also important to have blockchain, you know, to have financial inclusion, as Jonah was saying. And one of the reasons of these non-bankerized people is that they are very far away from the physical bank representations. So the technology can help this gap between unbanked people and unbanked people through technology because there are more people in Latin America with smartphones than with a bank account. So there's a very close relationship between impact and financial inclusion and technology. And we think we are an enabler of these connections. Very good. And can you talk a little bit about the work with identity and verifying digital identity? Yeah, of course, one of the main stacks, the technological stacks of blockchain is digital identity. We are working in different projects regarding this item. For example, in Buenos Aires, we are working with DD projects and we are issuing digital identity from the government of Argentina to a neighborhood which is informal and they don't have any kind of identification. So this digital identity through blockchain technology enables them to have access to financial services and to land registry which is very important for them because they couldn't even register their own lands in the public administration. And we are also working with different digital identity projects. For example, issuance of employment certificates, issuance of academic certificates which enable people to work and to access better quality jobs thanks to this technology. Very good. I mean, it's really transformative for people who are unbanked in underdeveloped areas and enabling them to use the technology that they have at hand through their phones is really a win for everybody. Vijay, I want to ask you, why do you think the blockchain technology serves the purpose of social good? Is it about this technology that's so useful? Yeah, I think the blockchain technology is actually perfectly fitting into a lot of socially good challenges. Because when you look at socially good problems, generally there are a lot of participants who needs to provide data or gain access to data or report their activities. Like if you take the fashion supply chain where a designer and a manufacturer and the material source or as well as the buyer, they all have to come together to really have complete visibility into all the data so that they all trust the information and gain confidence that what they can do is product. Similarly, if you look at every single socially good problem, you have individual participants bringing some information and gaining a lot from that network. And blockchain offers an opportunity for everyone to report their data and in such a way that it generates trust because you cannot just manipulate data as the time goes on. It's once it's recorded, it's recorded forever. And also it's antiquated based on the individual's identity so that everyone knows who posted the data and what kind of data is posted. And it's chronologically ordered so for any problem you can actually trace back all the way to the beginning to see how the data is interconnected and how it is provided. And depending on the governance of the network, the power can be shared across the participants so that everybody feels that this network belongs to them, for them to maintain its authenticity and to provide the value of the participants. So if you take fashion blockchain or honey blockchain or even internet content blockchain, there are some startups working on that. If you see the creator as well as the consumer both feel empowered with the data that they see, the data they provide and also the fact that they are able to gain at the same time give to this entire community. So I think blockchain actually as a technology that's really created an opportunity for us to create a network where we can create a scalable trust and privacy inclusive data collection and sharing and that's the uniqueness about the technology for it to really revolutionize the majority of this workforce. I think a few other important points too are the audit trail that's left.  And you know, in the work that we're doing in Cybertrace, we are able to drill down on that level of data. So it's a very important use of the tech. Sorry, I had an interruption there on the line. I wanted to conclude by asking each of you to talk a little bit about what the future is for the company and what is going on in the future use cases for blockchain. I'm happy to give a perspective on. Oh, sorry. Yeah, I didn't realize you were speaking BG. No, no, go ahead. Yeah, I think I think there is a very, very bright future. There's a very bright future for blockchain in general. There's a bright future for Ethereum. We're focused. We're laser focused on L2s and on programmatic enablement of new enabling technologies such as DeFi. We're looking at NFTs. We're looking at traditional finance. So we're looking at disrupting traditional finance. We're looking at working with crypto institutions. We're looking at expanding our consumer segment, bringing a lot of consumers over to our metamask product. And all of that I think has implications for social good. You know, the more decentralized we can make the world the better it's going to be for for every citizen in the world. I completely agree with Janna, because I think this technology, it's actually emerging. It's in the, you know, closer to the early phase of the technology compared to many of them. You see so many promising application of this technology for socially good solutions. We're looking at, you know, even COVID vaccine, you know, tracking tracking and tracing COVID vaccine that has been huge effort in actually utilizing, you know, utilizing blockchain for, for that purpose and there's been a lot of homeless population focused support at Oracle and implementation where we enabled homeless people who don't usually have the identities. How can we use blockchain to provide the identity so that they could take advantage of all of the state and city level services they could benefit from. So I see a lot of promise for this mainly because I think it by decentralizing, it actually provides opportunity for a lot of creative people to come together to solve a problem that is beneficial to many. At Oracle, we are doing a lot of engagements with supply chain customers who are wanting to get complete visibility into supply chain and then using that kind of a setup to create a positively competitive environment for every player in the supply chain to benefit everyone in the supply chain. So when you lack visibility into times, you don't know whether someone is winning much more than the other. But in this case, there's a lot of effort going on about how do we come up with the well managed competitive dynamics focused supply chain. So there's a lot of work that we are doing. I do expect the next few years is going to be a very positive one for blockchain based deployments. We have one minute left. I want to turn it over to Lachia to talk about what's ahead for blockchain. Thank you, Mary. And just to end very briefly. We think that blockchain, as my colleagues were saying, has a huge benefit for underbank people, for informal people, homeless people to issue identity, to issue them tools to improve their lives. So we do believe in this technology and we are moving forward from the ADVLAB in the building of this infrastructure and creating a better community around blockchain development. And we believe in a blockchain technology for enterprises and we do believe on this technology. So just to end, thank you. And I hope we continue in another moment speaking of Lachia. Thank you all for your participation. This concludes today's session. The session will be available for replay and the slides will be available through hyper ledger. Thank you.


Once you've created your speaker one sheet or your media kit one of the things that will be used the most is the first line of your bio otherwise known as your biography. I always recommend that you provide a 100 word and a 150 word biography because the people you're providing it to will be able to then take from it what they need but you do want to provide a 100 word biography as a minimum because what will happen is they usually use the 100 words and if you give them more than that maybe it's 102 words or 103 words and they need 100 words then they will take those words out themselves they'll make their own critical decision around shorten it down to 100 words and you don't really want to give your power away to somebody else to take control of that and I'll give you example of that a few years ago one of our clients submitted their biography to a magazine that was printing an article about mothers it was an article it was a magazine for mothers specifically parents and one of the things that she did was to build the whole article around busy mothers and that's her target audience was busy mothers not just mothers but she thought this would be a great magazines for her to submit her article to and she managed to get the article through to them they loved it but in her bio so the article was all about busy mothers in her bio because it was a couple of words over a hundred words they decided to take the word busy out and so it was just then aimed at mothers and of course mothers and busy mothers are two totally different types of dream client right so that really minimized and diminished the power of her biography because now it was just aimed general as opposed to being more specific and niched so I would rather that you took control over the words that are removed than to give that power away to somebody else so usually what will happen is when someone like myself is interviewing you they'll usually take that first line of your biography so you want to make that first line of your bio really easy to say I would usually incorporate your vision so if you've been through any of my programs we work on a 10 second 30 second and 60 second pitch and that first 10 second piece of your pitch is your vision the next 20 seconds is your mission and then the final 30 seconds is the actual pitch for whatever it is that you are talking about and we do we have a seven step brand Kickstarter process that walks you through that if you haven't been through the seven step brand Kickstarter reach out to me or I'll make sure there's a link for that below so that you can go through that process and get your own 10 second 30 second and 60 second pitch but when I say 10 second pitch the most important thing is that you have your vision as part of that 10 second pitch and so when you're creating your biography you want to get your vision into that so I'll just show you on my screen right now an example of my introduction to my biography in fact I'll put my whole bio here so you can see the the 100 word bio as an example and you can see that first line and that first line is what is usually going to get used when I introduce people onto the Ripple Makers podcast the Ripple Makers show any of the Ripple Fest events that we run any summits that we run I always only ever use that first line that first introductory line so it's really important that your most powerful thought provoking interesting summary of who you are how you want to be introduced is captured in that first line it's a bit like with your website people don't want to scroll down to find lots of things they they want to see the most important stuff at the top above the fold and so above the fold is a technical term when it comes to using websites but I would say it's the same thing for your bio make sure the most important introductory piece is in that first 10 second pitch that first 10 seconds of introducing you and then if they choose to use any of your your other pieces in your bio then they can of course take it from there but I would say that first piece make it as punchy and as prominent as you can make it if you speak on webinars if you speak on online summits you know if you want to be featured more as a speaker then and you want to do that internationally if you're already speaking on facebook lives if you're already doing those things and you're already an international speaker so you know get the word international speaker into title just put in international before speaker and whether you put keynote speaker or inspirational speaker whatever kind of speaker you are I would put international at the front of that because if that's what you want then make sure you put that in there and you're not lying if you are doing facebook lives if you are doing webinars if you're running summits or you're speaking on other people's summits if you're speaking on other people's podcasts and it's likely that those podcasts are going to be internationally listened to which makes you an international speaker so just think about you know how that's perceived you know an international speaker is perceived higher up than just a speaker so you know obviously be true be authentic to what you're putting into your your bio for example other things like if you've won an award so you might not have won a physical award on somebody's stage but maybe you were awarded based on your participation like at ripple fest sometimes we run awards and you know we'll we'll have you know a greatest change maker of the month and things like that and so if you've won an award like that then you are award-winning if you've been awarded for your participation in anything then you are award winning so you could get award-winning into there you know it's not lying it's authentic as long as you have won an award and especially if you've won that award for for stepping up for speaking out for helping others then you definitely want to get that in there because that's ultimately what you're doing isn't it so what I would suggest you do is really make sure that first line that first sentence of your bio is you know international speaker award-winning if you are award-winning if you're an author if you've published any books if you've been published in somebody else's book you know these are all things for you to consider to add in to that profile and just remember that your bio is an organic living breathing growing thing as you grow so does your bio so it's not like you know if you think to yourself but I haven't won any awards and I'm not internationally speaking yet and I'm not a published author I'm not any of those things but you have the desire to do that then definitely speak to me because if I can't support you then I'm surrounded by other people that do all of these things so reach out to me and I'll connect you with the best of the best to help you with that if we can't support you ourselves and you know things like you know being a published author that's actually very easy to become a published author there are ways that you can do that very quickly you know without even publishing a book so that you know there's there's ways that you can do it that make it very easy for you to do it and don't stress about it but you know that first introduction that first introductory sentence it is one of the most critically important things as part of how you're being introduced to everybody because that is your first last and lasting impressions if all they do is read that first line to introduce you then that's it's got to be something that you would feel proud to step up and say wow like who is that person that you've just introduced but it's also really good for you to create that line maybe create one that you're actually going to use but create one that you would love to be able to use in future what would you love for us to be able to say about your future how would you love us to introduce you because once you map that out you go wow you know okay so I want to be an international award winning speaker I want to win awards for speaking I want an award for being international speaker of the year I've won a massive award I can't can't fit anywhere on the boat because it's huge for doing over 10 million pound in sales in the training and speaking industry so these are awards that I've actually won but I don't say what awards I've won I just say international award winning speaker because I've won awards for speaking well at one point I didn't have that so I would just say to you where it comes to writing your bio there is a process for breaking it down I've got a little online program if you want to go through that program it'll talk you step by step through creating your biography and it's taken from part of the seven step brand Kickstarter process but if you don't want to go through the full Kickstarter and you just want to work on your bio then I'll put a link to that little online course below and just go through that and use the one drop movement community to get feedback on it as you go all right so don't sit there in silence don't suffer on this there is support available to you I'd love to be that person that supports you through this and if you if you get stuck on it like I say use the one drop movement Facebook community and we can help you live as you go through the process so take care if you've got any questions please put them in the comments below we'll do everything we can to support you have an amazing day


So I've been saying this for months and months and months and I'm going to continue to say it until I'm even proven correct or proven wrong. And if I am proven wrong, I will sadly eat a bunch of crow. But I firmly believe that 2018 is the year of third-party games on Switch. Now, what does that mean exactly? It means that I feel in 2018 Nintendo Switch is going to really be carried in large by, well, third-party games. Now, it doesn't mean there won't be Nintendo games, that there won't be exclusive titles. Of course, there's going to be. But I feel like there won't be as many impactful ones as this year. That doesn't necessarily mean it's going to be a bad year. Of course, it's not. We're going to get new games announced. And for all we know, maybe Nintendo technically releases more exclusive games for Switch next year than they did this year. But I feel like the big thing that obviously Nintendo has been missing for many generations now is full third-party support. And while the Switch will not technically have full third-party support because, hey, EA decided to jump off the ship already, it's because third parties, after the culmination of their quarter to financial reports, it definitely sounds like third parties are jumping on board as well.  But now that we have some evidence to it, I'm feel confident in standing by my prediction that we're going to see a ton of third party games in 2018. And not just small ones, although we're going to see some of those, some indie games, some smaller games by AAA developers, but also full console AAA games on Switch. We're going to see a ton and it's going to be awesome. Now, let me get into some of my supporting evidence for this from these financial meetings from several different companies. First, we have 2K themselves. They talked about NBA 2K18 on Switch and they said, in addition to versions for Xbox, PlayStation and PC, NBA 2K18 is our debut offering for the Nintendo Switch. So far, we're very pleased with the title's performance on this new platform and we anticipate continued strong demand across all platforms heading to the holiday season, along with growth of in-game sales, our NBA 2K series continues to benefit from increasing engagement and recurring consumer spending. And then they made some general comments where the take two chief executive officer, Strauss Zelnick, said that the Switch install base is growing quite rapidly and they find it a potentially exciting platform. So not only are they saying the Switch is a potentially exciting platform, they said we're very pleased with NBA 2K18's performance on the Nintendo Switch. So, one, that probably means NBA 2K19 is coming. If they are pleased with how well the game is selling so far, despite the fact that it kind of had a staggered release where it was only digital day one, physical a month later, and obviously dealing with how some of the games in the cartridge, some of its download, and some of the controversy, I guess, I guess quote unquote controversy, surrounding that and having to buy an SD card. Again, is it their fault? Is it Nintendo's fault? Whatever the case may be. The fact is that obviously so well enough for them to say that they're very pleased with how it's selling. That means NBA 2K19 is probably on the way and we also know that their own other, you know, one of their studios, Rockstar, is bringing LA and OR and this could lead to things like Grand Theft Auto V. I don't think Red Dead Redemption 2 would ever come to the Switch even though that release is next year. I just don't see them willing to port it at this point to the platform just because it's so far along in development and it has been in development for many years. It's a little late to add a new platform to that mix but 2K, they're excited. They're going to bring more than just NBA next year. I guarantee it. Moving on, Marvelous, they have confirmed that they have more Switch support on the way, including both ports and new titles. They didn't give any details on these games but they're like the people who do Harvest Moon. They're, I believe, the producers on No More Heroes or the production company or whatever the case may be. They've also done like the Fate Xtella franchise, Vahalla Knights, etc. Monster Hunter stories, story of seasons, obviously they don't control if they get to do Monster Hunter it's up to Capcom but reality is that they have done a slew of, I guess I would sort of call these AAA top tier titles but this is like that B tier that I feel is going to be vitally important on Switch and it's really already performed very well on Switch up to this point anyways. So again, it's just more third party support. Then we have Ubisoft, right? Another massive third party company like 2K, maybe even bigger than 2K and 19% of their sales in Q2 came from the Nintendo Switch. This was primarily a problem. Well, they didn't say this out loud but this was probably because of the success of Mario Plus Rabbids Kingdom Battle. We have no sales figures for that game yet but I'm guessing it's sold a million, maybe two million plus copies. I can't wait to get some actual sales numbers on that game because I have a feeling it was a huge success and we could see a Mario Plus Kingdom Battle. Mario Plus Rabbids Kingdom Battle 2, which I very, very much want. So bad. It's one of my favorite games on Switch. And here is what they said. They're very happy with the sales of Switch. This is Ubisoft and they will have some Switch games next year. Now, we do know that technically two Switch games are already announced. There's Steep which we haven't seen a lot of release since that was announced and Battle, Starlink Battle for Atlas which looks really, really good. It's interesting because it's tied into like a real life toys to life thing but it's entirely optional and you don't have to get it. I don't know. I'm probably going to give it a fair shot next year. Try it out just because it looks a lot like Rogue Squadron kind of. I'm really excited about the potential of that game and how it's going to do on Nintendo Switch. And obviously we have high hopes that they're going to start bringing some other games. What's nice is that Mario Plus Rabbids Kingdom Battle runs on Snowdrop. Snowdrop is their latest engine and with that success it can maybe make Ubisoft be a little more risky next year and see some bigger titles. Again, they're not confirming this. They're just saying they're bringing some Switch games next year and I hope that they're talking about more than just Steep and Battle for Atlas. I hope that means that they are now starting to commit more games internally to that platform because 19% you want to know what that is. That's 1% less than the sales they had on Xbox One which you know Xbox One has a lot more units out there right now and obviously it is less than PlayStation 4 but only by 12% which you know PlayStation 4 has almost 70 million units out there. So that's a really really good sales performance for Ubisoft. Moving on, Square Enix. Oh Square Enix. So obviously their new earnings call. They said that Project Autopod Travelers and Dragon Quest XI Switch seems to be on track for next fiscal year. So obviously after March 2018 Switch's momentum is strong and Nintendo is doing really good for Square Enix in terms of sales. Again, no exact numbers. They said the games they have out right now are performing well. They said that Switch is ideal for middle-range games which I think is what Marvelous is doing and it says Square Enix is really good at making those middle-range games. Again, Project Autopod Travelers would probably be considered one of those. So they're going to work on these titles aggressively and obviously they noted that these middle-range titles are also great for multi-platforms. Some won't be Switch exclusive. You know I know Autopod Traveler is but that might be the exception to the rule. It says when considering games for Switch Square Enix won't rule out any IPs. That's the most exciting thing about it is that no IPs. We actually reported on this earlier but I'm just going over it again because we're talking about third parties. It says new Switch games may become multi-platform but Square Enix promises to aggressively make games for Switch. Switch's core architecture and this is really interesting that I know it is similar to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. Again, I talked about this months ago and people kept doubting me and I'm like this is why third parties are going to come because even though it's less powerful it is similar in architecture which is going to make porting easier. It says some adjustments are necessary but multi-platform games are not impossible to bring to the platform like that's just Square Enix is on board. They're basically all in on Switch. They're aggressively making games on Switch. I think we can even see you know Kingdom Hearts 3 and Final Fantasy VII remake and possibly Final Fantasy XV all the side to come to Switch even if they're not ready day and date because yeah if they're this all in why wouldn't they now Square secret amount of HD come on get on that bring it over. Beyond that this isn't actually a big AAA studio but a Kickstarter by some of the actual devs behind System Shock are looking to remake System Shock and Switch is one of the platforms they're hoping to put it on System Shock again I think there was System Shock and System Shock II two games I played a ton of on my PC back in the 90s so I would love to see a remake of that appear in Switch and Bandai Namco. So Teguchi revealed that the company plans to reveal three new Switch exclusive worldwide release titles during spring and summer of 2018 but release windows for those titles were not given and again just more and more and more support and here's the thing this is just what I was able to gather over the last couple of days more and more companies are going to start talking positively about Switch there are several indie studios now like not necessarily panicking but like rushing to try to get their games released on Switch right now Switch is hot it is red hot and there's a lot of companies probably wishing that they would have committed to the Switch a year ago so they could have had titles come out now or even in the summer Switch is just a hot ticket item man it's going to sell 14 million projected units this fiscal year which puts it around 16 to 17 million units total in 13 months there's a lot of people that are regretting that they didn't jump on board right away Koei Tecmo isn't one of them they jump down right away and now they're seeing a big sales success in Fire Undlem Warriors so again this isn't necessarily a news report although it has a bunch of news in it but what this is is evidence to the fact that 2018 is going to end up being the year of third party support on Nintendo Switch the year that Nintendo wins back all well maybe not all but a vast majority of third party companies that they either have never had on their platform which we've already seen proven with Bethesda or they used to have coming back this is probably the most third party support Nintendo is going to see since the Super Nintendo era insane again we don't know how many of these games are going to be a sales success we don't know if Doom is going to sell well or LNOR or Skyrim or the Batman telltale series that's coming out that I'm picking up Rocket League we don't know how well any of these games that are coming out already this month I mean literally this month in November is the biggest third party month in Nintendo Switch's very short history so far and it's going to be interesting to see how well those games do but it doesn't look I mean it looks like that a bunch of companies are already committing games for next year we can't even forget that there's a late port of Wolfenstein 2 coming and apparently some people are saying that the sales of Wolfenstein 2 are not very well even though the game is massively critically acclaimed maybe Switch can kind of swoop in there and become like the primary platform for Wolfenstein wouldn't that be nice like you know having to sell more copies on Switch than it did on other platforms I'm not saying that that really matters for me per se but it does show that there'd be an interest level in games like that coming to Switch and we'll probably tell Bethesda oh my gosh we really got to take this seriously like that game and Doom selling really really well would basically tell them that oh maybe we should be thinking about bringing some of our other games over there it might even make Rockstar be like maybe Red Dead Redemption 2 should be on the platform well let's bring over Red Dead Redemption first then we'll release the second one I don't know I'm some wishful thinking there but I'm really really excited I'm glad that my theory that 2018 was going to be this year of third-party games on Switch seems to be coming true obviously we don't have any big game announcements yet we have no new games announced but my theory will hopefully be proven true in the early parts of 2018 it sounds like through E3 I think E3 is when I'll finally be able to you know either eat a bunch of crow or not eat a bunch of crow and it's possible that 2019 could be an even bigger year but 2018 I think is when you're going to see all the third parties hop on board and Switch is going to have so many games coming out the keeping up with it is going to be nearly impossible for anyone who's trying to collect the entire library and that's what I want I want so many options for games on Switch that it appeals to every potential type of gamer out there that's always been my ideal method for the Nintendo platforms and it just hasn't existed since the Super Nintendo era so yes it looks like it's getting back to it thanks all these third-party companies for committing to Switch at least next year I can't wait to see what games you're deciding to bring please we saw late port of Assassin's Creed Origins yes please and you know what folks I am the Thunder of a Jets from Nintendo Prime and speaking of third-party games before we sign out here we are giving away a triple pack I think it's called the Nintendo Switch triple a three pack of third-party games at the end of this month it includes Ella in a while Skyrim and Doom of course these are all M rated games you must be old enough to receive them you'll the country you're from or the country you're participating from must also be willing to accept giveaways and you must obviously meet the age requirement of the game so you know you'll have to check that all for yourself because age requirements vary in different areas in different lands you know it might be 18 plus in the US or 17 plus I think in the US but somewhere else it might be 18 other places you might be able to do it at 14 I don't know I'm not from all those countries I'm only from the United States so I only know the laws here but you can enter for free down in the description there is a gleam that IO link that is a legit giveaway link and there will be multiple ways to enter with the primary method be interest hey subscribe to us here on YouTube that being said I am Nathaniel Ruffijans from the general prime if you like this video you know what to do and if you dislike this video hit that dislike button subscribe for more content just like this and man I'll catch you in the next one


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