They are all this is a video about the check on the score sheet received from the TCS. Once the exams are over you will be receiving these two folders that is you will be receiving the online and offline folders that is one will be containing configured report subject wise and the MPTL subject wise score. These two folders contains the score sheets. The rest of the now I am going to explain you the checks to be done on this sheets. In the NPTL configured report subject wise sheet what we need to do is we need to do a check on this. Once you receive this score sheet kindly check the name, email ID, date of birth and application number or there in this configured data sheet. If it is missing kindly send it back to the TCS concerned respective people you will be given an email ID using that email send an email to that person TCS contact person and get those details in the configured excel sheet. Once before sharing these sheets we will be checking it once and after that only we will be sending if it is missing in that sheet kindly ask those details from the TCS and get the appropriate response sheet from the TCS. This is actually the response of the candidate whatever the answers they have selected in the online paper. So this is the online paper response sheet for each and every candidate whatever answers they have selected you could able to see it in this sheet. So for each and every section for each and every question it will be given a question ID so you will not be having the question number in this sheet. So question ID will be the reference for us and option ID will be given here option name also will not be displayed here. So once you receive this sheet you know the total number of candidates who are present on the first exam. So for basic campus say like 15 candidates are present or 30 candidates are present let me see how many candidates are present in this examination since 55 candidates are present for this examination each should have 4 rows commonly that is not 4 rows actually it is 5 rows I think actually it is question ID, question value, option ID score and correct option these are the 6 columns that will be static for all the candidates these may not be changed. So question ID will be given for each and every questions for all the sections and the question type whatever it is MCQ, MSQ or short answer type questions will be displayed here option ID and sequence which is not necessary that is just for reference and the score we need to get for all the candidates and the correct option ID or value is the one which we need to compare it with the candidate selected option ID or value. So these 6 columns will be static for 6 rows will be static for all the response sheet. So now what we need to do is this is the candidate response over here this is the candidate response for this candidate that is Shankaran he has given the result, score and question status selected option ID or value. So for question number question ID 1611 his answer is correct what he has selected we can see it over here selected option ID or value here is 41186 and the correct option ID what we have selected in the back end is 41186 since both matches he has been given a score 2 and does mark being correct and the question status he has been marked for review or he would have answered whatever may be this we can take it as a reference only this is not much needed. So let me see for the answers which is wrong so here what the answer is the correct app option ID or value should be 41191 but he has selected 41190 so it is wrong and he has awarded 0 marks similarly we can check the scores for MCQ once you receive this kindly check this criteria that is compare the selected option ID or value and correct option ID or value for 2 or 3 candidates and confirm whether this auto graded value is ok that is it is fine the scores are awarded fine once you are ok with this then you need to share it to the professor. So this is for MCQ type for short answer type what you will be given is the question number is short answer so here no option ID or value would be there since for short answer type of questions the candidate needs to type his response in the online software so in that the correct option ID or value should be minus 2 but what he has entered is that is in the selected option ID or value what he has given is 0 so he is awarded 0 marks for that since the answer is from so the candidate may give minus 1 also here so some of the candidates have given you can check it over here if the candidate has given minus 1 minus 1.25 he may awarded some marks but what the software will do is it will search for the exact answer if it is minus 2 then only it will award mark if it is minus 1.9 also it won't award marks so what we need to do is we need to check it out here since if the candidate has given minus 1.9 here then we can ask the professor whether he can provide any marks to the candidate if he says ok you can change the source score here and you can highlight it with the color and for minus 2 if the candidate has given minus 2 space if a space was there then the candidate will be awarded 0 only so what we need to check is we need to check whether the answer is minus 2 matches here minus 2 and if he has given wrong answer we need to provide him the correct marks for the question so if there may be a minus value or my space value also if a space is detected over there then he will be awarded 0 so whatever is given in the selected correct option ID or value in the back end it should be exactly match with it and the space or any other two more spaces if he has added that will also be considered as a wrong answer only and then what we need to do is for MCQ similarly we need to check the options for MSQ type of questions it is similar to that of the MCQ and the two option IDs which have been set in the back end should match with the selected option ID or value for the candidate's response if he has given one answer is correct he will be it will be marked as PC here that is partial correct you can ask the professor whether he can give marks or not if he accepts to give the marks kindly provide the score here and finally you need to do the sum of it sum of all the scores so if these type of questions are given if these types of questions are given here we need to send a draft mail to the professor once we receive these type of response sheet from the professor once you receive the response sheet what we need to do is we need to share the so these are the checks to be done here so once you receive this response sheet from the TCS what we need to do is we can check randomly the MCQ type of question and SC type of question whether the marks are awarded appropriately then if not we need to report it to the TCS that the online evaluation has been done wrong what we need to do is we need to check the MCQ type of questions if the answers are the correct option ID and selected option ID matches with the same and the scores are awarded correctly then we can leave it so if the scope if for any criteria if it has been mentioned as wrong if both are matches and then also if they have given wrong answer and they have not given the score we need to report it to the TCS these are the checks to be done at first so once these checks are done what we need to do is we need to send these sheets to the professor that is consolidated score sheet and respond sheet respond sheet for the course name you need to mention it here that is this is for 8th November and for 1st November also you need to give it to the professor so you need to mention him in the mail that the short answer type of questions has to be evaluated by him or by the TA's by cross checking it with the correct option ID and the selected option ID and these sections need to be highlighted with some other color and this should be mentioned in the email so that the professor or the TA will look into this and they will provide marks for this and at last what we need to do is we need to do a sum of this some of these scores for all the candidates so this is a thing we need to do in this file similarly the respond sheet for the 1st November has also to be checked and that respond sheet has to be given to the professor along with this so these are the sheets to be shared to the professor respond sheet for the first exam and the second exam and this consolidated score sheet should be provided by us now this sheet how I will explain you how to prepare this consolidated score sheet this consolidated score sheet will be given to you this NPTEL subject-wise score this sheet will be provided to all the IITs from the TCS so on seeing this sheet once we open this sheet this response sheet will be given to you based on the date wise first and eighth and the subject wise scores also will be given to you based on the dates first and eighth this is a subject wise score sheet which will be given to you for the final candidates for the exam this is only for 1st November so for 8th November also you'll be given a sheet like this so you need to prepare the consolidated score sheet which should be in this format so the first format should be course ID template should be in this format course ID roll number first name email and then we need to map the assignments goes to the professor and these logics will be given to you once the course ends the professor will be posting the exam score calculation logic in the announcement and forum based on this we need to put these columns over here and the scores also we need to mention here exam score exam score from TCS out of 100 this column has to be filled once the professor says confirmation since the confirmation mail to you once this that SAT questions and MCQ questions are evaluated by the professor calculate those scores from the response sheet this response sheet you need to calculate this overall score for each and every candidate if there is any changes you can calculate this score and you need to mention here you need to update the score at first what you need to have is final exam score from TCS out of 100 and faculty updated score should be given here and one more column final updated score from faculty out of 100 so we will share you this template for you in this template you need to fill on the details first it should contain course ID roll number applicant first name email ID the assignment map and the details of this that is a calculation logic should be given a column over here the final exam score from TCS out of 100 which should be updated here from this sheet out of 100 this sheet contains the score from TCS out of 100 so this is a total score over here do a we look up based on this email ID this email ID and have a you will be given a final registered data is it what we need to do is we need to prepare another sheet that is the sheet to be sent to the professor should contain present details here absent details in the second sheet and the third sheet should contain the consolidated score in the consolidated score the template should be in this format as follows so as for this what we need to do is we need to get the course ID roll number name email ID from the final candidate data template that is we have obtained the app attendance details here in this sheet right in the from this sheet you need to take the first name email ID and all this details and you need to copy these in this excel sheet and you need to map the assignment details also here and then you need to update the final score from TCS out of 100 from the sheet they have given to you subject wise course should they would have been shared with you from this sheet we need to get the total score out of 100 or it may be out of 70 the exam may be out of 70 also so you need to calculate the total score get this total score in the sheet that we are going to send to the professor do a we look up and get the scores from TCS and then what is this column final updated score from faculty out of 100 this should be that whatever the professor has evaluated know in this file the professor may have given some marks as life changes will be there so if he has given some marks calculate this in this column and then do a we look up based on the email ID and get the scores here from the faculty out of 100 so that's it if there is no change then copy the final score from the TCS out of 100 and paste it here as I say since we have received the confirmation from the professor that there is no change if there is no change you can copy this column out of 100 and paste it here else you need to copy the updated score from there to here now we are going to map the assignment details here assignments course here so before mapping this assignments course here we need to take a dump from the online courses portal this assignment dump has to be taken from the online courses portal once all the deadlines gets over from the course so what we need to do is before taking the dump you need to log into the course using the reviewer email ID not using the course email ID that is admin email ID before taking the dump we need to log into the online courses portal using the reviewer login ID each and every course will be having a reviewer ID which will be shared to you you will be given the reviewer email ID reviewer one at npcl.itm.ac.im and the password will be given to you so for each and every course before taking the dump you need to log into the reviewer ID not using the admin ID just log into this click on each and every assignments and check whether the due date has been ended or not since the due date has been over I have taken the assignment dump on 12 level for all the assignments the assignment due date has been over so I have taken the assignment dump and what you need to do is you need to get the assignments code for this so you need to the assignment name the in the dump you may get the assignments which have been created for reference admin ID but they may have deleted further so what we need to do is we need to check it first we need to check whether those assignments which are in live that is the candidates have submitted that only we need to add in the dump so first login to the scores check whether these assignments whatever assignments are visible in the reviewer login that assignments course only should be in this profile dump so this assignment one score has not been here since they have created this assignment and they have used Google Forms this course has to be given from the professor so once you receive that score from the professor you can get it so mention this column is even and leave it as blank if it has course here kindly check the dump if the dump has assignments course you can get the assignments code for those candidates alone and check assignment to assignment to the assignment number is 78 so it may have duplicate also assignment to may be repeated here anymore again so what you need to do is the assignment number what it has is 78 and assignment 2 is view viewable in the public so in the reviewer login so you can take this code for assignment 3 also it's viewable assignment 4 5 so you need to check all these columns new assessment is created only for reference and this is not available in this online courses portal so you can delete these columns 5 6 7 and 8 these are the assignments course which are to be taken so to take this assignment school what we need to do is from the consolidated sheet to a be look up and get these assignments course alone this 8 assignments course alone and get the average assignments course since the professor has given the formulas average assignment score out of 100 you need to fill this column the formula is that we need to sum up all the A1 to A8 assignments and average assignment score out of 100 you need to calculate it so average of it divided by 8 is you will be getting the average assignment score out of 100 and then 40 percentage of assignments for the professor has given 40 percentage of average of all assignments so I'm doing it step by step so we need to mention all the steps in separate columns so 40 percentage assignment score final score from TCS out of 100 and final updated score from faculty out of 100 after his reevaluation from the scholarship then 60 percentage of exam score over here I have calculated it since this is out of 100 I have calculated it for 16 to 60 by 100 and rounded off that value so final certificate score will be a combination of 40% assignment score plus 60% examinations score so once you create this template you need to fill all these columns it might be lack over here for few professor which who may not be giving us a logic for that you need leave those columns consolidated assignment score and the exam score a column as blank and send this to the professor and get the logic from him and then get the do the calculation if he has given the calculation already do these calculation and keep this final certificate score as ready so if he has provided some marks then he will be filling it here and he may be giving you else you need to fill this column if the professor has given the scores separately if not you just take this as an exam score and convert it over for 60% and then do the final calculation this needs to be given to the NPTEL for uploading the scores in the portal for uploading the scores in the NOC website you need to give the scores in the following format so that template I will be sharing it to you that is 2 dB so assignments core template will be there and update exams core template will be there what you need to fill is roll number should be added here that is from the consolidated score sheet what you're giving it to the professor you need to copy the roll number from this and the assignment scores which had to be given a 12 a 14 or 8 assignments are there for elements of official representation so fill 8 assignments course over here and delete this rest of the columns and give this score assignments core template and the second one is you need to fill the update exams core template in this NOC course ID which should be in the format of NOC 15 IEFN this is HS16 since they have 8 candidates marking it here and the roll number has to be given here score from assignment whatever we are publishing in the website it should be out of 100 so what you need to do is we are calculating it here for 100 average assignment score out of 100 so this assignment scores has to be displayed in the NOC website so out of 100 assignment score should be displayed here exam score out of 100 if the exam is for 80% what you need to do is you need to convert it to 100% and then copy that cells here and paste it and again what you need to do is final score final score it should be out of 100 that is the 60 percentage exam score plus 40% this is a final certificate score this should be copied and given to the NPTEL that's it and one more detail what we need is before we need to upload it in the NOC portal we need the assignment mapping details which is which needs to be in the following format this assignment map A map should be given to the NPTEL for uploading it in the website so what you need to do is you need to mention the course ID here this template will also be given to you you need to do is you need to give the course ID here total assignments has to be given here so since it has 8 assignments you are giving 8 and go and check in the online courses portal and provide the details here since it has 8 weeks in this they have given 8 weeks so I have mentioned 8 weeks here an assignment map the first week they have given A1 weeks you need to mention here is 1 so since it has 8 weeks you need to mention it here each week has one assignment so I have given in this format some may have some may be like this A1, A2, A3 may belong to first week so whatever is given in this portal check with the week wise details and give the assignment map detail for each and every course using this only we will be updating it in the NOC portal so these are the sheets that has to be shared to NPTEL and the professor so you will be given a format that whatever needs to be shared with the professor has to be like this to professor what we need to share is we need to share the response sheet and the consolidated score sheet this sheet will be taken from the final candidate registered data the present candidate details alone we need to take no need of taking the absent candidate details we need to take the assignment scores for them do the calculation and keep it ready present and candidate maps and candidate details also should be given over here and the response sheet for both the exams has to be kept ready these sheets has to be shared to the professor once you receive this you need to proceed this consultant score sheet and update the format that I will be giving to you to DB these for these sheets course to be or to be given in this assignments code template and updates code template and this sheets to be shared to the NPTEL for uploading in the NOC portal


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All right, I wasn't going to talk about this in my monthly contributors earning report, but I decided that I'm going to do like a full video on this because I've got some semi good news that I want to talk about in my revenue report for the past month, and this isn't really a feel good video. What I want to talk about in this video is the changes that Shutterstock just announced for how they pay contributors. Now if you're not familiar with this, last week, every contributor to Shutterstock got an email that essentially said in a more complicated way than this, but you're going to get paid less, right? They changed the way that the earning structure is going to work. For the most part, contributors are all going to make less money over the year, and it's set up in like a really weird way so that Shutterstock will pay less money at the start of the year and maybe pay more later in the year, and it's got a lot of people up in arms. A lot of people are really upset about this, and what I want to talk about in this video is my reaction to it, as well as, you know, other people's reactions. I'm not going to go through all the step-by-step details of how they changed. F-stoppers has a really good article on that, and I'll just put a link to the F-stoppers blog article down in the comments, so if you're interested in about exactly what the changes are, look at that blog article, but I'm going to talk about how they affect me and how they might affect others as well. Now for my reaction to this, I'm actually going to buck the trend and say that I'm not outraged about this. Now I'm obviously not happy about it, you know, Shutterstock is going to pay me less every month going forward for the same photos that I sold previously. So it's not great, but I don't, you know, have the anger towards Shutterstock that you might see elsewhere on YouTube and definitely see on all the forums. And the reason is that I kind of almost expect Shutterstock and companies like Shutterstock to do this type of thing, and this isn't the first time that this has happened to me. Like, a lot of other stock sites over the past 10 years have been going through and doing this same thing. So it's not that surprising to me either. It's almost expected. So I'm not going to be going into saving my portfolio on Shutterstock. I'm not going to be going and, you know, down-rating their app or anything else like that. You know, when I signed up for Shutterstock, you know, there's the terms of service and I read the terms of service.  It literally sends it in when you agree to be a contributor, right? As part of that, though, I as a contributor, I'm allowed to take my photos off Shutterstock whenever I want. There's a certain amount of time that, you know, they have to take them off and the licenses are still good, but like that was the agreement that Shutterstock and I went into when I uploaded my photos there, right? They have not, in my mind, changed the agreement, right? When I read that, I kind of knew that they could change the rates. And I also kind of knew that there's only one way they were going to change. They were going to go down, right? And like one of the things you need to know is that this isn't the first time this has happened, right? Like in 500px, when they first started selling stock, like in 2014, 15, I was making like $1,000 on 500px selling my photos. And like for one photo download, I could get $175, right? And then if you change that to like last year, you know, 2019, I may be making like 30 cents or a dollar for 500px, right? They changed the way that they did pricing and my revenue went down. You know, the same thing happened back in like 2011. iStock got bought by Getty, and they also put down the rates that they pay contributors, right? So this is something that has happened at other companies. It's kind of, I see it as part of the business of selling your photos at stock, to be honest.  I want to kind of hear me out for a minute, right? You know, I've been reading through the forums and, you know, a lot of people that they keep saying, Shutterstock's being greedy. Shutterstock's being greedy. They're a bad company. Well, you know, I don't think you can say people are being greedy for doing this, right? You know, obviously COVID-19 is happening. Shutterstock sales have been down. Almost everybody that I've talked to or any website she read, most people are seeing their Shutterstock sales go down because of COVID-19. Obviously, if the contributors are seeing their sales going down, Shutterstock is seeing their sales going down as well too, right? Shutterstock has a lot of employees. They obviously had, probably had to make some changes. That contributed to this, okay? Now, I'm not saying that Shutterstock isn't gonna make more money next year because of this, you know? Luckily, the good thing about Shutterstock is, is that they are a public company. So we will see how much they earned, okay? We will actually know whether they made more money or not in this because you can actually look at the filing as you can see this. But we don't know they're specifically doing this because they're greedy. Also, they were totally within their right, right? As I'm within my right to have a Smugmug website and I have a Smugmug website where I sell my photos to stock, the exact same photos that I have up on Shutterstock and I take 90% of the cut, right? And I don't consider myself being greedy for that, right? Like if you take your Shutterstock photos and upload them to Pickfair and make more money off them, is that being greedy? I don't see that as being greedy. To be honest, I see that as more good business sense, okay? Obviously a lot of people are gonna disagree with me, especially those who have their photos only up on Shutterstock. But I kind of feel like if you thought that Shutterstock was gonna put your interests in front of theirs, then I think you were just mistaken. I think that was where the problem is, that people thought that they were part of their Shutterstock family. Well, Shutterstock is a business, there is no Shutterstock family. Their Shutterstock family is their employees and they're probably trying to take care of them. They're not trying to take care of us, the contributors. Unfortunately, us the contributors, we gotta take care of ourselves. Now, obviously a lot of the people, if you've been reading the Shutterstock forums or the Microstock forums, don't have the opinion that I have. A lot of people are pissed, right? And they're going out and you know, they're gonna use different kinds of activism to get Shutterstock to change their mind. And in my mind, I think that's a waste of effort. I think if you want to sell your photos as stock or sell your art as stock, there's some key things that you need to understand about the stock industry. And these are probably unpopular chews, but their chews none the less. And the first thing is you gotta realize is that the success of a stock company like Shutterstock is not in their ability to recruit and retain contributors. It's in their ability to recruit and retain buyers, right? And of course people are gonna now say, well, yeah, but if we all left Shutterstock, they'd have nothing to sell and they wouldn't make any money. Yes, but that is true, but that's never gonna happen. It's not realistic to get every single contributor to sell things, especially when there's money to be made, right? You know, what I've seen in the stock industry is there's been lots of stock companies that have come and gone over the years, right? And the ones that are successful, all they really need to do is to get a minimum set of photos up there, so they can then start bringing buyers in. And the sites that are successful and marketing to buyers and bringing buyers in, you know, then the photographers and the contributors will then flock to that site because there's money to be made, right? It doesn't work the other way around, right? There's other, you know, stock photography companies out there that are kind of just floating along, right? Companies like maybe Dreamstime or Canstock Photo. If half of the contributors from Shutterstock left Shutterstock and went to Canstock Photo, the buyers would not flock there, okay? Buyers don't follow there.  Now, there's other places where they can go to buy stock and there's other ways to make money as stock where the buyers are looking for a bit more than that, but you can't, you know, leave Shutterstock and make them change their mind.  So whether we like it or not, stock companies are gonna be successful if they are successful at getting the buyers even if they don't have all the best contributors. All right, and now for a second unpopular truth.  Meaning that obviously you can't create horrible photos in some of the stock, that's not gonna work. But it's much better to have one photo that's average and get that in front of 10,000 buyers than it is to have an amazing photo and get that in front of 10 buyers. That's the unfortunate reality. No buyer, you're never gonna create a photo that is perfect for every buyer and every buyer that sees it is gonna wanna buy it. That's just not the way art works, right? It's about numbers. You need to get it in front of a lot of people. And stock photography is one way to do it. These websites are one way to do it. Shutterstock has a ton of buyers.   It's just difficult and that's not impossible. And there are photographers that are successful at it. There are photographers that have niche websites, they do really well on social media, they use social media to push those buyers back to their website and they do very well, okay? But that is a different skill than actually going out and shooting the photos, okay? So that's one thing you need to understand. And if so, if you have been only uploading your photos to Shutterstock, like I've seen, you know, a lot of these people in these shreds is like, oh, I'm not gonna solely upload my photos to Shutterstock anymore. Now I'm gonna also upload them to Adobe stock. Well, why weren't you doing that before? Okay, like, you know what I mean? You didn't sign an exclusive agreement with Shutterstock and I have tried exclusive agreements in the past with Getty and none of them ever worked out for me, okay? And Shutterstock doesn't do exclusive agreements. That's one of the reasons that I like them over using Getty images, right? So you should have had your photos up on Adobe stock along. Not only should you have them on Adobe stock, you should have them on Dreamstime, you should have them on deposit photos, right? You know, each one of these Microsoft sites is, you know, a chance to get your photo in front of one of these buyers, okay? Not only should that, you should also have your own stock site and you should also be active on social media, right? And then you should be trying to push people back to your stock site, right? You know, all of these things are things in addition to the creation of the photos that you need to do if you're going to make some sales. And that's one of the things that I think, you know, is allows me to not really care about this as much, you know, obviously one of the things is I don't make a living just from the stock photography, it's a side income for me, right? But also, Shutterstock isn't 100% of my earnings, right? Shutterstock over the years actually has been a smaller and smaller percentage of my earnings because I've got all those photos up on like 10 or 15 different sites, right? I was actually just looking at my stats for May and I made more money on some of the free sites like Pexels than I did on Shutterstock. So although this is gonna hurt me and obviously Shutterstock was previously one of my top burners, and since I have my photos on so many other sites, now another site is gonna be my stock burners. So it's not going from something to nothing, right? So for all those people, like if you're one of those people that just had your things on, your photos up on Shutterstock, I think that's where you need to move forward with this, right? There's no point in taking them down. There's no point in giving that revenue to another Shutterstock contributor because as many as people are gonna complain about this, not everybody is gonna shut down their Shutterstock portfolio, okay? So you're just giving that another Shutterstock contributor. So you might as well keep making that money on Shutterstock but get back at them by making more money elsewhere, okay? Make up that money that they're taking away from you now, right? By changing these terms up on all these other sites and get your photos up there as well. Now, obviously what people are gonna say, oh, it's not worth it, right? It's not worth it to upload to big stock photo because I'm only gonna make $30 a month or $20 a month or however much you think you're gonna make depending on the size of your portfolio, right? And there's so many sites and it's so difficult, right? I don't wanna turn this into like a commercial for Fortaleu. So I'm actually gonna explain to you how you can make it really easy to get all your photos up to all these sites and not have to pay any extra money, okay? How you can go from being a Shutterstock contributor where you're losing money from Shutterstock without paying any extra money in the whole and get it on and start making more money and have your photos on all these sites, okay? So we have a website, Fortaleu, that allows you to upload your photo once, you can upload it everywhere to Shutterstock and a bunch of other sites. Now on the website, we have a free version. The free version gives you five uploads a week, all right? And you can upload to four different sites. So here's what you could do. You could take your Shutterstock photos, right? Sign up for a free version of Fortaleu. The paid version, don't get it, just get the free version. The first week, link it to four different stock sites. So sign up for an Adobe stock account. Sign up for a Dreamstime account. You know, maybe a big stock photo account and a deposit photos accounts. So those are four non-Shutterstock accounts. You're still within the free version. Take your best five photos from Shutterstock, upload them to all those four accounts. It won't take you more than like five minutes with Fortaleu. You upload it, it'll help you key word and we'll put it in there. You just have to go in and submit it. It's pretty quick, all right? Start doing it like every Monday, okay? So every week you get five more uploads with Fortaleu. Every Monday upload five photos, all right? I think if you were making decent money on Shutterstock, it won't be more than a couple of months before you're making 30 or 40 or $50 a month on just those four other sites, all right? Now, take $60 of that. This is where it does turn into a commercial. Say $60 of that, money that you made, right? Again, this is just new money from these sites. When you get your payout, if you get a full version of Fortaleu, then you can upload it to all 11 sites, okay? So then you can start, you know, all your new photos, upload them to Twitter, Facebook, you know, all your social sites, start building a following on those sites, upload them to the stock sites as well, all right? I think what you're gonna find is, is that if you have good photos, people are gonna see them, okay? Eventually, just with these new sites, not on Shutterstock sites, you'll start making a couple hundred dollars. Now, don't stop there. What you can do is go and sign up for a Smugmug account. Now, Smugmug makes it really easy to sign up for a website where you can basically go ahead and sell your photos at stock. Now, you can link all those social sites you have, push them back to stock. Link all those social sites, so you can start actually making some of your own sales from your own video, right? Now, obviously it's a bit of work, but this wouldn't be that much work. You know, if you're, it's probably a lot less work than all the complaining and boycotting and things that are trying to go on. If every contributor went ahead and did that, that would actually hurt Shutterstock because you're helping all of Shutterstock's competitors and you're helping yourself by becoming a Shutterstock competitor, okay? And if you just use the extra revenue from that to, you know, build up all these sites, then you're not actually paying any extra money, all right? Of course, you're gonna have a yearly fee of $200, but I think most contributors are gonna find that if they just did these things, they would be making thousands more a month for those extra $200 that you're paying for like a Smugmug and a Forlew subscription. And then, if you do this, you're gonna have all of your photo collection up on, you know, 11 different sites, 12 different sites, and Shutterstock will still be making you money, but all these other sites can be making you a little bit of money as well.  Adobe Stock seems to be a lot of people's number two and with Shutterstock cutting the earnings, Adobe Stock is probably gonna be most contributors' number one site. But when they do the same thing in two years or three years or four years, it's not gonna bother you as much because you'll be in the situation that I am now where you've got your photos up on a ton of other sites and you'll realize that, okay, well now, maybe Dreamstime is gonna be the next one.  So I think, you know, that's a much better approach, you know, getting your photos out there, you know, working on your own stock business, not just creating the stock photos, but getting them out in front of as many buyers as possible is gonna help you a lot more than complaining on the forums or trying to join these boycotts or even just disabling your Shutterstock portfolio because the reality is probably only half the people that say they'll disable it will actually end up disabling it, right? So you're only hurting yourself by doing that. You're not actually hurting Shutterstock. Now, if this is your first time watching a video from me, you know, typically on this channel I talk about making money from your photography and typically the videos are a lot more positive. They're also a lot more scripted, normally I actually write down points of what I'm gonna say and I take a bit longer doing them, but this one I kinda didn't wanna script it because I just wanted to say what I was thinking. So even if you don't like what I'm saying, you know, you still may be interested in the channel, go ahead and subscribe, you know, if you don't just maybe think about it, right?  I don't wanna sound conceited there, but like having your photos up on a lot of sites I think would solve a lot of the problems and a lot of the grief that some of the people are having over this with Shutterstock.  Keep trying to make a living or make some money at stock photography, whatever your goals are, do you know what I mean? We try to support them and, you know, best of luck selling your photos online.


There are 40 or 50 languages in California that have no speakers anymore. We decided on this Breath of Life workshop, the conference of California Indians to talk about what is going on with their languages and what they want to happen for their languages. We have among the best collections of California Indian language materials in the world. We invite California Indians to come learn how to access their language, learn what documents exist on their languages in our archives, in our libraries, and so on, how to use those materials to make language lessons for others or to just study and learn language oneself. Breath of Life is exactly that.  The living words that you carry in your heart, that you want to express through native views, through native feelings cannot be expressed in alternate languages.   I can say from my own experience, I have learned a great deal more from the Indians than I ever thought I would about how to face life. This is for the future of my people so that the kids that are coming forth and the generations to come, that they'll have something to fall back on and hopefully this will give them a good foundation so that they can be proud of who they are. It's spiritual and it's our ancestors talking to this generation saying, now is the time before it gets lost. I feel more Miwak than I've ever felt in my whole life.


The question is that amendment 2327.2, in the name of Humza Yousaf, which seeks to amend motion 2327 in the name of Anna Sarwar on protecting patient safety at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, be agreed? Members should cast their votes now. The result of the vote on amendment 2327.2, in the name of Humza Yousaf, is yes, 64, no, 54, there were no abstentions, the amendment is therefore agreed. The next question is that amendment 2327.1, in the name of Douglas Ross, which seeks to amend motion 2327 in the name of Anna Sarwar on protecting patient safety at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, be agreed? Are we all agreed? The Parliament is not agreed, therefore we will move to a vote and members should cast their votes now. The result of the vote on amendment 2327.1, in the name of Douglas Ross, is yes, 54, no, 64, there were no abstentions, the amendment is therefore not agreed. The next question is that motion 2327, in the name of Anna Sarwar, as amended, on protecting patient safety at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, be agreed? Are we all agreed? The Parliament is not agreed, therefore we will move to a vote and members should cast their votes now. The result of the vote on amendment 2327, in the name of Anna Sarwar, is yes, 64, no, 55, there were no abstentions, the amendment is therefore agreed. The next question is that amendment 2326.1, in the name of Shirley-Anne Somerville, which seeks to amend motion 2326 in the name of Michael Marra on action on active ventilation in schools, be agreed? Are we all agreed? The Parliament is not agreed, therefore we will move to a vote and members should cast their votes now. The result of the vote on amendment 2326.1, in the name of Shirley-Anne Somerville, is yes, 65, no, 54, there were no abstentions, the amendment is therefore agreed. The next question is that motion 2326, in the name of Michael Marra, as amended, on action on active ventilation in schools, be agreed? Are we all agreed? The Parliament is not agreed, therefore we will move to a vote and members should cast their votes now. The result of the vote on amendment 2326, in the name of Michael Marra, as amended, is yes, 65, no, 54, there were no abstentions, the amendment is therefore agreed. The next question is that motion 2307, in the name of Mary McCallan, on reappointment of Scottish land commissioners, be agreed? Are we all agreed? The motion is therefore agreed. I propose to ask a single question on five parliamentary bureau motions. Does any member object? The final question is that motions 2346, 2347 and 2350 to 2352, in the name of George Adam, on behalf of the parliamentary bureau, be agreed? Are we all agreed? The motion is therefore agreed. That concludes decision time. We'll now move on to members' business and I ask members who are leaving the chamber to do so quietly.


Okay, just a few words to start. For those here, thank you for coming. Of course, the time are not ideal for travelling. For many people that wanted to be here, or several people that wanted to be here, have not been able to, because of, in some cases because of restrictions, in other cases because of visa issues, and of course the geopolitical situation at the moment doesn't help at all in having good relationship between countries. We have good relationship between people, but unfortunately we not always have good relationship within countries. In some cases, and I apologize for us being Italian, I know that there have been people that have not got the visa because the embassy told them we don't have time for appointments for meetings for the visa until December, which is completely bullshit, sorry. It's better to say until December that we are not giving visa to people from this country because of political situation. At least it's transparent and it's the reality. Just hiding behind, we don't have time until December is, I think it's even worse because people do not get, they understand the situation, so they would understand maybe even if they don't like the political decision, but in that other way it's really, it's like a joke. And so I apologize for the people that cannot be here and because of these silly situations. I would like to have everyone here because the Italians are welcoming people in general and therefore it would have been nice to have everyone in this room, or at least everyone that wanted to be in this room to be here today. And for those here, thank you for the people that are seeing us streaming. Welcome to the conference as well. I hope you can enjoy the conference. We will try to make it as easy as possible for you to interact with us. But we have the Telegram channels. You know that we, you know our emails, you know the emails of the people that are here if you have any issue. If you write to any one of us, we will try to solve the problem if there is a problem in interacting with us in seeing the streaming in technology or something like that. If you have a question, send a question. Not to me because I'm speaking, not because I don't want to see the questions, but for the other people that are here and you know many of them, send your questions. If you have them, we will be happy to answer them in the best possible way. Of course, thank you for the sponsors. So the two main sponsors are Allotropia and Collabora. But we have two other companies, Passbolt and NetService. Their logos are smaller because their contribution is a little bit smaller. But of course it's important as well. And of course the Document Foundation is in fact the main sponsor of the conference. And for the first time, this will be the LibreOffice Technology Conference because we announced the concept of the LibreOffice Technology last year, and this is the first conference where I hope people will show their advance that contribute to the LibreOffice Technology. The concept is rather easy. LibreOffice was born as a desktop application. Today just a desktop application doesn't make... It makes sense, but just alone it doesn't make sense anymore. So LibreOffice luckily is a platform on top of which you can develop different applications for different operating systems for different platforms. So the reality is that we have LibreOffice from different sources for Android, for iOS, for online. Of course there is always space for improvement and have them on even more platform operating systems. But I think if we work together we are in the right direction to achieve the objective which is to provide the best open-source platform for personal productivity. So not just a software but a platform that is the technology or the engine for the different software that run on the different platforms. So this is about LibreOffice Technology. Of course welcome to Milano, or Milan if you prefer. I'm, as I said yesterday, although I'm the one that lives in the city or close to the city, I'm not from Milano. I've been living here for 54 years which is quite a few weeks. But there is one person that was born in Milano. I don't see Paolo, but Paolo Pelloni. So if you have to complain about Milano complain with Paolo and not with me. Okay. A few logistic information. The conference agenda and the venue map are on the conference website. These, if you are here so you've already reached the conference but for the people that will be here tomorrow and on Saturday. During the conference there will be people taking pictures of participants. We will use them on TDF property. No Instagram, no Facebook, no fancy social media. Maybe Twitter and LinkedIn. And on the annual report. So if you have issues in being in a picture that will almost never be only of you but of the group please tell us. We will try to take care of not using that picture for these publications. Every day at 1pm people that were here yesterday already know that we will have lunch boxes coming in, food is vegan. There's no real issues for anyone. Once you have finished and today we will have the lunch boxes in the foyer which is just you get out from those two doors on the left and the right not from the door upstairs. The foyer is there and we will have the lunch box in the foyer and on Saturday as well. Once you have finished your lunch box everything is recyclable so you have to separate paper and plastic. The boxes are all paper even if you see transparent it's not plastic that is paper. And then you have plastic which are the cutlery the bottle of water and the glass. So we should separate them. It's not a huge problem if you mix them up so that the good citizen is even better. Friday before lunchtime we will take a picture of all participants. I think the best place to do that is in Piazza San Fedele in front of the church or in front of Palazzo Marino which is on the opposite side of the square. Then we will decide but we will tell you tomorrow if we get it before the lunch box or after but it's a matter of minutes. We go there we take a picture and then we eat. And every speaker should remember to send either Sophie or me the slide for publication because we will not get all the slides for publication here and we need them to populate the website. Tonight, community dinner so you finish here at 6 or 6.30 you can take it easy because we will start at 7. From Duomo you have to go to Metro Duomo Piazza del Duomo it's easy if you don't know where it is but not seeing the Duomo in Milano it's a really difficult task so in front of the Duomo you have the Metro you go to the yellow line it's Metro 3 Metro 3 yellow line remember yellow that's easy you take it in direction San Donato and get out at Lodi-Tib it's a stop Dibbi's Tecnomasio Italiano Braumboveri it's a very old industry making turbines of course it's not anymore in the city today but it's called Lodi-Tib historically so from Lodi-Tib you will see on one side a kind of bridge it's a bridge over the over the rails you go in the direction of the bridge and the bridge is basically what you see the first line then you get Via Brembo and Via Benaco and you get to that point there will be outside a LibreOffice roll up so you won't be missing it Metro and on foot is half an hour so take it easy when you get there there will be something to eat, not the pasta because we will start cooking pasta when everyone is there but you will have something to snack everything because you are in Italy of course everything is Italian so no McDonald's, no Burger King no Kentucky Fried Chicken if you are really eager to get one of these you should source them during the while walking and we will accept you with your McDonald's bag and for dinner if you really want to be intoxicated if you want to eat decent food is probably better to get pasta and someone knows the recipes please do not tell, some Italians know the recipes, please don't tell the recipes to the other people they should be a surprise in any case there will be three vegan one vegetarian and two with meat so there should be enough for everyone the amount of pasta per person that we have is 300 grams which is I would say quite enough and then we have five kilos of Taralli and Scaldatelli to start and beer beer will be from a micro brewery in Milano and the word brewmaster will serve the beer so if you want to it speaks fluent Spanish, not a lot of English so you can ask the Spanish people can ask him about how he brews the beers we will have a lager and a Belgian style beer if I tell you the names the names are fancy names invented by him so there's nothing I'm not telling you anything that you know so some sightseeing suggestions Milano that is of course if you have some time to spend around the city I would suggest to visit these are probably the most interesting things to see Duomo is very close and Galleria Victoria Emanuele are extremely close to our location they are just behind Teatro La Scala is on the square behind Palazzo Marino which is the palace that you have on while getting out of Piazza San Fidel on your right then you have two museums Pinacoteca is means Museum of Paintings it's an old word there are also libraries so these are 16th century libraries which you can you can visit the castle is nice outside and inside it's there are several museums if you go there my suggestion is to see Michelangelo's Pietaron Danini he's the last masterpiece of Michelangelo he was close to he died a few weeks after it's unfinished he died while he was finishing the statue then you have Sant'Ambrosio and Sant'Eustorgio they are the two brothers Sant'Ambrosio is the protector of Milano and Sant'Eustorgio was his brother they are two beautiful churches and San Lorenzo Maggiore was the Roman church of the imperial palace Milano was the capital of one part of the Roman empire and San Satiro which is very close to Piazza del Duomo is an architectural masterpiece of Bramante there is a lot more if you are curious about Milano you can ask me half of my studies were on history of art so I know rather well the city and what you can see on Saturday afternoon we can organize some walking tour we already did it for the previous Milan conference so we can do something different we can do the same I don't know one of the ideas was to go to the two other people that will not get lunch because they are shy and they are behind the camera so people in front of the camera will get lunch people behind the camera will not get lunch so Lotar wants to is on a diet and therefore is okay on Saturday afternoon we can discuss and organize a walking tour one of the idea was to go to the new part of Milano so the new architecture also because there there is a supermarket where you can it's a high level supermarket where if you want to get back some food from Italy I've heard people want to bring back Parmesan cheese that is a place where you can get you have different choices you can get not only food you can get whatever it's called Italy it's the largest Italy in the world here in Milano it's you can find them in other places there is an Italy in Paris an Italy in Berlin but the one in Milano of course has more choice and I think this is all for the welcome and introduction again welcome to everybody if you have questions now I think we have some time before we start at 10.30 or even before the opening session no questions yeah from Trier he was so Lotta is happy because he's from close to Trier yeah absolutely I'd like to add a thank you to you Italy for organizing all this you were doing this you were doing this lesser more alone on site and with as we know quite challenging circumstances so thank you very much for making it possible to have the first in-person conference after three years thank you very much thank you but it was a pleasure and unfortunately we have some limitations people asked for instance why we have not organized a hack night it's really difficult because if you have food we'll accept that you meet in a number of people if you don't have food and you say we are hacking software and they look at you and say what you're doing so hacking software is not a human activity which is partially true but okay so next year probably hopefully the pandemic will be even more under control have again a hack night this year was really impossible I tried to find places but everyone has told me it's not the way to organize it for the dinner luckily you will see the location tonight is actually I being Italian of course I'm flexible let's say so the tonight you are all learning how to cook pasta because that was the trick so it's a learn it's not that I'm cooking a new reading but it's that we are showing you how to cook pasta and therefore it's a training and we can have a training otherwise no way it's not a restaurant and no way you can get but because it's a kitchen school then you can organize a kitchen training a food training for people and this is no one will come and check but if someone checks and say no I'm learning how to cook pasta it's interesting I can print it no problem it's no value at all 7 7 30 but be I mean be relaxed the only thing at 11 30 not because I want you to go together way but because of the metro is better that at 11 30 you live because metro ends up the last metro starts just before 1 am so to be sure that you get to your places without risks is better that you live that at 11 30 so you have at least 1 hour in front of you for getting back to the hotel shouldn't be a problem metro at night is not as frequent as during the day but there is quite there are quite many so that is last but anyway tonight we will have time to discuss to change the schedule this is I mean we can check in the other room because all the all the settings are the same in the we have only in this room we have only the opening and closing sessions so basically apart from a couple of people Ilmarie and I don't remember who is presenting on Saturday but the majority of presentation is happening in the other room so the setting in the other 3 rooms are exactly the same one room is not used so we can use that room where there is an HDMI cable to check if the projector is compatible and then you have to move to the other room for the presentation that is possible yes is not ideal but let's say is the closest to what we can do questions no other questions every everyone is shy we should lose 12 minutes but usually are always running after the schedule and we are a lot in front ahead of schedule ah ok sure I forgot you see people that has not got the conference back with a t-shirt if you didn't get the probably you already got the badge Sofia the badge Sofia is the badge here in front for people that are missing their badge when we are in the other at the end of the session here you will have to get out of the auditorium you just turn right and so three times right and you get to Piazza San Fedele where there is the entrance of the other rooms for the afternoon and for tomorrow so when you are there if you ask one of the us, Sofia, me or we have conference bags with t-shirts so you can get your conference bag with t-shirt if you didn't get get it already and we didn't bring it here just because we should bring them back almost immediately so that's for the people that doesn't know him this is Armin yeah exactly because Paolo wanted to kill you I think because of impress and therefore okay so I don't know I mean I can tell you stories but okay no just a little bit about if you are interested about the history of this area you see several palaces so we are in the right in the center of Milan you see there is a mixture of new buildings and old buildings the problem is that Milan was ever bombarded during the Second World War luckily Duomo was damaged but not too much Galleria was damaged not the buildings but of course all the glasses were broken La Scala that you can see in Piazza della Scala was almost completely destroyed and many of the palaces around including where we are today were destroyed by bombs so they have been rebuilt in the 40s, 50s, 60s and this is the reason why you see there are mixed of very old in some cases and very new buildings Piazza San Fedele which is the place where there is the the back entrance of the conference center there is a church that was the church of the Milan's nobles families Duomo was the popular church was for everyone and actually the Duomo that you see today was built from the 13th to the 18th century so 13th is the ups and the 18th century is the façade that was finished in 1860 so it's really a fake Gothic façade was made during the romantic period San Fedele is the church where the really noble family were meeting and is the church that is just side of the meeting center the palace that you will see on the other side of the square was the house of a single family actually was the house of a single person that was a banker it's called Palazzo Marino because the family was the Marino's family and it was a banker so today is the seat of Milan mayor but if you look at the palace and you see how big it is you can realize how rich Milan was in the 15th, 16th century actually the Marino family was one of the first large bankers so they had the subsidiaries in London Paris and in other cities so it was a family but it was lending money basically to all the big countries in Europe behind Palazzo Marino you have La Scala and you will see that La Scala the front is still the original one Neoclassic but everything behind has been rebuilt several times because the first was built after the war was exactly as before so it was everything was wooden and the risk of fire was big and in fact there was a fire so now only the the internal room is with wood and is all treated to be antifier actually in the internal you can visit the Museo La Scala and as a part of the museum you can get into the Scala the Scala theater you will see it from the main from what was the royal the royal place in the center in the back and today everything you will see behind is all there is a big white cube inside that everything is completely automatic now so basically yes this is where they had all the machines before that were moved by people now everything is automatic everything is moved with a computer to avoid the risk because it's very high so there were people falling from 30 meters when they were doing it manually and just to finish if you get out of Piazza San Fedele on the right of the church so you just when you are in the you have the church in front of you you exit to the left and then you cross the road and after a few 100 meters on the left there is an arch that goes into a square that is Piazza Belgioioso and the Belgioioso family was another very rich family in Milano and that place is completely untouched since the 16th century just by chance was not it by any bomb so you still find the Palazzo Belgioioso and the house of Alessandro Manzoni Alessandro Manzoni is a very famous writer in Italy was the author of Promessi's posi that is a big classic so that is an Eden treasure because no one knows it it's really Eden you cannot get there by car unless you live in Piazza Belgioioso which means that you are extremely rich and more or less Belgioioso cheese Quello Fanaterni Belgioioso cheese at Bel Paese Sima Bel Paese cheese is toxic please so don't never listen to Gabriele when he gives you suggestions about food because you already mixes up the names of the cheeses ah yes in front of the stock exchange there is a monument that is a little bit let's say as raised a little bit of concern when it was because it's a hand with a finger to the stock exchange if you are really curious you can go there but I wouldn't suggest it to lose your time to get there it's just for security they're just supposed for it's you know Piazza del Duomo is considered a strategic objective for someone that wants to make an attempt to people because there is always many people who are we as part of NATO's agreements we have to keep military presidium to avoid this kind of stuff I'm not sure that this avoids but you know these are the rules and yeah it's just let's say for security although I don't know if it's means really security but that is the same in in Piazza San Pietro in Rome and in other places which are considered to be potential areas of attack Piazza del Duomo of course if you see during a normal day is not really crowded now it's end of September but you can believe me in August it was in some cases difficult to walk in Piazza del Duomo and in the gallery and also the gallery is considered a potential because it's closed therefore we will always say but it's we have them for years we don't even notice them anymore because they're part of you know they're part of the of this scenario unfortunately they did the geopolitical situation affects everyone not in Italy at the moment we are lucky we didn't have any major strike but you never know yeah also but okay so let's start with the opening session this is again a welcome for everyone and again thanks to the conference sponsor and I think this is really and I invite here Torsten and Florian I don't know if they have anything to say but I have to invite them here so if you want I can dance but yes please it's not the best the best join that you will see yeah I don't think there's anything prepared so let me just join each other in welcoming you all it's so great to see so many of you in person again after those dreadful two years yeah it's brilliant and so relief and it makes me like feel very very positive and we have so many great talks already in the past three days and I look forward to many more until Sunday when I will be leaving yeah nothing much else to say from my side except like big thank you and also a very very large thank you indeed to the local organizers and the team from the foundation from TDF for setting this up like under very very very difficult circumstances very last minute change in venue which I think Italy mostly pulled off single-handedly maybe you use both hands I'm not sure about it but it looked very single-handedly so yeah just maybe another round of applause for that it's greatly appreciated but this time for real is the last one because I said already that in Rome but then because of the pandemics I had to make up my mind but this is for real the last one I will be 17 for this year the last one I can help others but it's a good way to lure good same from my side I'm glad to see all of you thanks especially to those who had a very long trip here for us it's still rather convenient it's still Europe which is a topic we want to address anyway but Europe is rather convenient and for some of you it was a really long trip and it's a completely different continent especially to those of you especially in these times that are still challenging my extended thanks that you took the way here to Milan I've seen many people from far away it's good to see you after that long time again very very happy that you took that burden so thanks a lot for that and of course again thanks to Italo for organizing that for running all that that was really rather hands free I mean you were doing everything locally with challenging conditions and that last minute change of location so thanks a lot for that and you definitely earned your merits in organizing conferences so glad to see all of you welcome and have a safe and good week to add to that I've just been talking to some of you and I just learned that some people here like traveled for two days just to echo Florian it is maybe you need to come closer you have to come closer it's very sensitive hello hello Mike if I talk from the side just to echo what Florian said and I was talking to a few and learned that some of you actually traveled for two days to come here and then it's another two days to come back and it's just I'm very grateful and it's an honor that you put that in for the project and for the conference the other thing that came to my mind while we're talking about conferences travel and all of that was this wonderful Latin America conference that took place in August I believe and organized by the Olivier and the Brazilian community if I'm not wrong and it was hugely successful like how many participants 300 something and I think that were a global community and that possibly having a liberal office conference on another continent but if we don't do that then at least having continue to have local conferences we also had in the past like Asia conference or in Japan local events and I think that's a model to continue in the face of perhaps continued challenges in traveling globally while at the same time as I said super happy and honored that people take it upon themselves to travel for such a long time and maybe next time for Latin America or Asia I can pull it off it was a bit of a challenge for me this year I really wanted to go to Brazil but then I was very grateful that Lota was jumping in and represented and represented let's say the European part of the project what else is there to say? There's always a lot of people working in the background I'm sure we'll forget many of them but also thanks to them just this morning we had Kilim around to make the video stream impossible Mike is sitting over here handing all the social media I think perfect then nothing to add the people I'll call the people in the different bodies so stand up so that people can see you I don't see Emiliano so Emiliano will be coming Paolo Paolo Vecchi Board of Directors Kendi you can say the rest of your name because it's Kor Laszlo and Gabor these are the directors and then we have Gabriel here and Ayan on streaming but he's in Turkey not able to attend then we have the membership committee this is the newly elected membership committee so we have Miklos Marina who is in Germany Gustavo I don't see Gustavo not yet here yesterday he had a bad night because of jet lag so maybe he's still sleeping a little bit Gabriele and Uwe then we have two deputies Shinji and Balas and then we have Ahmad in Indonesia and then the team Florian everyone knows Sophie then we have Klof in the aquarium there then we have Cisco somewhere Ilmarie Josein who is not here is the developer community he's on the stream then again in the aquarium we have Gilliam Olivier Michael and me ok that's the people in let's say the core team of TDF although I think that everyone is a core team member I forgot Stefan sorry Stefan apologies I need you I hold you a coffee at least sorry and I think everyone is really a member of our big and large team and we actually should learn to be more a global team than we are it's a challenge because it's a challenge we have the language is a challenge our different cultures are a challenge I think that this project and sorry for speaking too much but I I wanted to express some of my feelings about it when since we started this project I've learned an incredible amount of things about being in a global team and having respect for other cultures I frankly admit that my respect of several other culture was not the same in 2010 and that was my fault this was not the fault of the other culture was just my fault because I was very superficial in looking at the others and I think that the opportunity that we have with TDF of meeting people and in some cases of visiting other people countries for conferences is an incredible learning experience and in this I I try to remember you that we have a marketing budget we have the possibility of having grants for projects and therefore if you want to organize a local conference if you want to organize an event in your country don't be shy ask us even if you have just a basic idea we can work with you to improve the idea and make it a reality if you have something interest to tell others in other countries I think talk to our members in the other countries they will be happy to make it possible for you to visit and talk at this event for instance with Franklin in Taiwan I was able to have a talk at Coscap in Taiwan is the local free software event but it was important to be there because you learn a lot about their culture and their reality so this is an incentive for every one of you of course we all have a family a job and we have to mix our different duties but believe me it's a very important experience to be and visit other countries be with other people mix with other people at events because you learn you not only give but you take a lot in terms of culture and it's the oldest person in this room to tell you so if that is true for someone that has almost 70 years I think is true for everyone else because you can really learn a lot so last couple of things we have the conference schedule is online check it regularly because we may I hope not but we may have last minute changes it is reflected immediately if the page refresh the page because maybe you have the old version cached but you will always see the last the last version we also have the streaming and for the streaming so Emiliano the red one and Uwe is the white one I mean the red t-shirt white else because we showed everyone in the bodies and yesterday Mike published on the blog the links for the streaming so one of the links which is the link for this room will be the same for the main room in the afternoon we will move to for the people that is looking at the streaming we will move just behind this room in other smaller rooms the second one is another room we will have to set up the the streaming so maybe in the afternoon we will start a few minutes after 2pm we have already checked everything this morning so it should work without the big issues in the afternoon because the settings are the same maybe just one additional thing so if you don't have wireless access yet then poke one of the people who seem to have there is a code here there is a captive portal and the code and so can't obviously put this on the slide but digital is the master of the if there is not enough code or not enough bandwidth we can ask for another code then we have a conference application is available on google play and fdroid if you add it installed from last year it has updated automatically because the link to the application is the same and you can use the application to make your own agenda to follow the different talks no this the stream jits is not working sorry this is last year last year link I forgot to delete it youtube links we provide them at the last minute not because we we are bad people but because of technical needs we have to open the stream and it gives us the link once the stream is opened so we cannot have it before so it will be always some minutes before the session or the morning of the afternoon session starts the same please check the youtube links on a regular basis because they may change if we have a problem we have to create another link and therefore that can change communication channels we have two telegram groups one is LibreOffice conference main chat and the other is LibreOffice conference announcements and then we have the mailing list which is conferencegloballibreoffice.org I think is everything the lighting talk session it's a schedule for tonight at 5.30 can go up to 6.30 we have three talks schedule already so there is still quite a lot of room for other talks people interested in presenting should talk with Tostan that's me one hour before it starts so by 3.30pm maximum and also if you have a lighting talk after the conference please remember to send your slides to us and Shinji is arriving Shinji is from the membership committee and I think now again time for questions and then we have the two keynotes Harlotropia and Collabora and if we want to have a 5 minutes break I don't know what time is it we have 10 minutes so maybe we can have a short break unfortunately knockoff inside but just to make some gym for your legs and then Tostan will start


That's such a good message that AJ ended on, because it goes right into the next piece that I want to talk about. That as we sit here in this moment where we're excited to move forward, we have this let's do better, let's move forward, let's continue to be rigorous orientation, that's very sort of forward looking and action oriented, but that one of the people who has most made an impression on me in this field has always said you have to look back, you have to reference the work that came before, you have to understand all of the good thinking and bright ideas that have already been put out there that have been articulated well, the reports that are out there. It's not about the next report, it's about making sure you knew what was in the one before so that we're not recreating the wheel over and over again. And sometimes he's angry when he says this message because he's been doing this for a long, long time. Why hasn't anyone read what's already out there and the great work that's there? And sometimes he is so patient and has been for so long in keeping this conversation moving, continuing to really push himself to look back always, even further beyond when this work started. And I'm really, really excited for you to hear because this will be the first time that I hear it as well, the latest from Jed Emerson. Please welcome Jed. Thank you. Thanks very much. Reflections on impact resistance. And just so we're clear on the topic, gotta start the day off right. For many of us who care about living in a just and sustainable world this past year, since last we gathered here at Socap has been truly challenging to say the least. Many feel we're a call to resist and indeed we are. I find myself reflecting on the various forms of resistance available to us and the many ways we are called to place our bodies against the cogs of capitalism, to challenge, to change, to redirect the forces of our society and the forces we have unleashed on the world. For many of our people, resistance means taking to the streets to physically manifest our opposition to the tide that is rising that threatens to sink all boats. For some, resistance comes in the form of taking a knee. For others, resistance means engaging in political advocacy directed at those in Washington for Americans and other capitals at the national, state and provincial level across our various countries. But there are also other forms of resistance. For example, consider the resistance of Buddhist action. The idea that we act rightly. We act without selfish attachment to our own agendas. We act mindfully without causing discord with our speech. Our right actions spring from compassion and an understanding of the Dharma. As we think about how best to resist the forces of the current age, those words as well as passages from Christian, Jewish, Muslim, First Nation, and many of our other wisdom traditions have not only words but guidance to offer us. We should listen to them. But in truth, I will publicly confess I am absolutely the last person who should be speaking of such things. Too often I find in the course of my life I do very little of what these words suggest. I am, after all, a said and done, a bad Buddhist, a challenged Christian, and sometimes, yes, a pretty horrible humanist. I'm a man of deep faith and spirituality, but I'm a child when it comes to living the life of my precepts. So I'm not the one to preach to you today. While I offer you the words and reflections of our wisdom traditions to give us all guidance, let me come back to what brings us here, together to this church of the new capital. What brings us together is our shared exploration of the purpose of capital. I frame ours as a dialogue on the purpose of capital because while we fly various flags of impact investing, socially responsible investing, sustainable finance, and so on, we stand together under an alternative banner of our shared understanding of capital's ultimate and true purpose, a social, moral, and ethical purpose as opposed to the exclusively economic purpose many wrongly assume it to be. We stand together to advance an alternative to traditional investing, to promote capital as a form of impact resistance that goes to the heart of our definition of the purpose of capital. I raise this question with you in the context of resistance because I think we as a community have grown lazy in our understanding of the purpose of capital. In many of our field's recent discussions, we have come to focus too much on impact investing as a means of creating some new form of financial investing as opposed to its promise as a vehicle for advancing economic performance together with social change and real environmental sustainability. We think of it too often as simply some form of new investment practice and reflect too little on its potential as a tool of resistance against the practices of mainstream financial capitalism, much less our world's current drift toward authoritarianism and a dystopian future. In so doing, we're at risk of taking the lowest path to the nearest point as opposed to the highest path to a potentially much greater destination. Last year, speaking from this stage, I emphasize the need for us to step back from our discussions of the how of impact investing, the best structures, the best metrics, how to raise the biggest funds in order to reconnect with our understanding of this deeper question of why. Why are we doing this? What are our core motivations and intent? Where is it? We're truly trying to go. Those who are attracted to the practice of impact investing are by nature smart individuals drawn to the notion that investing should be more than simply increasing one's wealth, but must also include consideration of various other social and environmental aspects of capital investment, return, and portfolio performance. However, for many of us, the question of why we are investing with this intent has come to be rapidly answered in an interchangeable set of seemingly self-evident responses to do well and good, to align money and mission, to respond to climate change. These are not in and of themselves bad answers, but they are light responses to what are fundamentally deep and profound questions of personal and social meaning and purpose. They are responses to the why question posed with a lowercase w. They require no further reflection or consideration. They are the easy off-the-cuff responses one would expect at a cocktail party, or perhaps what one might have heard at the first SOCAP conference 10 years ago. Such responses require no shift on our part or fundamentally new thinking. They require no real profound critique of current practices within financial capitalism, nor do they require real change in our own behavior, aside from adding a few funds to our portfolio or augmenting a reporting process there. Light responses to the purpose of capital do not require us to reconsider our own fundamental assumptions or understandings concerning the meaning of money, the true purpose of capital, or the real impacts of our investment practice, regardless of our intent and good wishes. Such facile responses to the question of why allow us to drop off the hook of accountability, slightly modifying our approach to investment and capital allocation so we may think all the better of ourselves and sleep more soundly, knowing our capital is not creeping around in the dark of night, contributing to a world of moral and environmental decay, but rather is proudly parading in the light of day, offering us personal redemption while bringing good things to good people, including bringing good clean profits to our own good selves. Think of it this way. To paraphrase Neil Young, our understanding of the purpose of capital is atrophied to the point where rusting millionaire rock stars feel they may lecture us on impact investing because apparently the investments they have made have not made them wealthy enough before they fade away. In the words of Pete Townsend, meet the new boss, same as the old boss. Isn't that nice? I would suggest, ladies and gentlemen, that if we focus constantly upon how to do our work as opposed to why we're doing it, we will become truly competent at our labors while lacking all comprehension as to their fundamental meaning, potential, and yes, purpose. The danger is that we will build a house that once completed, we will not want to occupy. Let me be clear. This is a very challenging dialogue in which to engage in there are a variety of outcomes we may each embrace as we have that dialogue. I'm not here to tell you what your understanding of the purpose of capital should be, nor am I interested in trying to convince you that my perspective is correct. I would simply submit to you that from my own personal perspective, the purpose of capital is to be applied as a fuel for freedom, to fund disruption of the social and economic status quo, to be a tool of resistance. Otherwise, it is simply capital as economics and traditional finance. Our definitions of impact may be as diverse as the asset classes and investment instruments we cleverly devise and impact does look different across different asset classes, but regardless of the asset class or the nature of impact generated, we must be laser focused upon impact as change and not accommodation. The larger field and various markets of what we might think of as impact investing have grown significantly in recent years and promise to grow many times again over years to come. As others have warned, better metrics, transparency, and an honest accounting of our field are critical to our future, integrity, and success, but that success is about more than simply ensuring we do not allow the misappropriation of our work, vision, and potential. It is about ensuring our capital does, in fact, create meaningful sustained impact in communities and capital markets across the world. Let me go one step further. The challenge of scaling impact capital is not simply the potential for impact washing in the form of the absence of social change within an investment approach, but rather the absence of a social and economic critique of financial capitalism and the assumption that simply through our attempt to do good and well, we are affirming justice, advancing equity, and creating ever greater freedom, not simply for us to do well and good, but for others around the world to live lives of fulfillment and self-realization. We need to understand the purpose of capital is not simply the absence of evil from our pursuit of wealth, something hard enough and potentially impossible for us to achieve, but the active pursuit of healing, wholeness, and love in this world. We are called to engage in impact resistance with our capital as a way to stand in opposition to and in the face of the negative effects of the Anthropocene, race, hatred, and discrimination that has always been under the surface for many of us and front and center for others, and before our own ethical rationalizations to protect and defend our positions of privilege at the same time we feel called to rise up against, challenge, and redirect the realities of that privilege. The historic and mainstream understanding of the purpose of capital is not rational, nor self-evident, nor proven in any objective manner. It is simply a set of interlocking social constructs we've collectively evolved and endorsed over the centuries, and that we may, we must collectively challenge. It is a set of assumptions we're called to hold up, scrutinize, and revise, but in the end, that historic financial understanding of the purpose of capital must first be resisted and then rejected. In that spirit, I would ask you to consider this. The purpose of capital, the purpose of capital is to advance a more progressively free and just experience of life for all. The purpose of capital is to negate, resist, and challenge the present economic, social, environmental, and political realities within which we find ourselves. The purpose of capital is to advance the fulfillment of our potential as a thriving planet and valued people. The purpose of capital is to serve as a fuel for freedom and the attainment of the greatest potential for each person in every community. As such, impact investing must be viewed as a form of capital resistance. I ask you to consider sinking the roots of your resistance into the soil of a deeper resolve wrapped around not only your personal history and individual principles, but those of our shared traditions, history, and wisdom. A wisdom and exploration of purpose that has carried us through the ages, through times of pain and peace, over the course of a common journey, and into the future we know awaits our global community. A future of healing, equity, and freedom for each of us, for all of us, and for our life-giving planet. Thank you very much.