Fantastic. All right. So today we're going to go through the last few things that you need to do in the week and a half before DrupalCon. Very exciting. We're getting very close to the end now. This presentation covers a number of different things.  Let's just use this one here is the room set up. I've got it at the very beginning and then the remainder of the presentation is for perhaps new and perhaps for experienced speakers. I'm going to use some of my tips and tricks on dealing with nerves dealing with technical failure and also some audience management techniques in terms of doesn't happen very often but dealing with trolls and other fun kinds of audience members. We've just got an update that's happening which stuff is doing for us over in the speaker FAQ section. So I'm kind of monitoring that as we go along. The room set up for this conference is very similar to what we've had at previous DrupalCon. You will have one podium mic, one table microphone at the head table, which means if you have a panel, expect to be sliding the microphone back and forth to people. One audience mic on a stand. If you have time for Q&A in your presentation, please do make sure that the audience members ask their question into the microphone for the purposes of recording. Even if you're in a tiny room, we still need to get everyone onto and in front of a mic for recording purposes. There's a switcher at the head table for up to four laptop inputs. This can be really handy if you've got multiple people giving little slices of a presentation. Perhaps obviously it goes even smoother if you can combine everything onto one laptop but you do have that option there. The projector resolution is 1024x768 and it is VGA. So make sure for those of you who are bringing Macs that you've got your little thunderbolt adapter thingy. At 1024x768, you are looking at a four by three or four to three resolution, which means that if you're working in a 16 to nine resolution for your slides, it's going to be scaled down by your application. And let me just make sure that everyone is muted. I'm not entirely sure who this is. Folks, can you make sure that you, there we go. I think that may have been Jesse. Just make sure that you're muted when you come in. All right. And let me do that. I don't see the quick button to mute everyone. So I may need to pop off again if someone comes in and is unmuted. So again, just a reminder, if your slides have a different aspect ratio, not a problem, but they will get squished down. So you may want to test them in four by three or four to three ratios. You will have an audio jack for your laptop. If you've got video that you want to play that has audio associated with it. I don't know that you'll get a chance to test that ahead of time. Oh, so the pound the IRC channel is pound Drupal con everyone again pound Drupal con for the IRC channel. Okay, and of course, every room will have one screen and the sizes will vary per room. Now, the big note on this one is that there is no reference to lapel or Lavaguerre mics you can and I've already told stuff that I want them. But in pound Drupal con staff is there and if you can all remind her that we would really appreciate it as speakers because it means that we get to give a more authentic to who we are presentation because we're not feeling stuck behind the podium. By all means stand at the podium if you're more comfortable there. But I personally like getting away from the podium and standing on my own. So I have asked for them. We just don't have a reference to it in the room set up information that I was given. So, by all means, you want to ask stuff for Mike and she's in pound Drupal con right now and has no idea that I've just told you to ask for them. All right, so that's the room set up for most people. That slide is going to be the most important thing that I'm going to tell you about today. You're comfortable with audiences. You're comfortable with presenting and the rest of it is, you know, it's kind of neat, but you don't really need that information. The next three slides. So if you do stick around for these, that'd be fantastic. The Drupal con site supports you as a presenter, but we did have a number of problems in Munich. So I'm going to give you some things to watch out for in terms of the website and how things happen there. So first off, the, the request is that you up your upload your slides ahead of time. However, the slide field will not be publicly viewable on session nodes until the first day of the conference. And then it should be published for all sessions. Now, take a look and see if it's actually been published because there was a delay in Munich. The safest thing to do is once you know your slides are set, go ahead and publish or, or edit rather the body field for your presentation and put a link in the body field as well as the slide field so that if it doesn't get published right away, you don't have audience members complaining in their session feedback that your slides were not uploaded even though they were. Make sure that the right version of your slide deck is uploaded as of Sunday, May 19 because again, these should be automatically published and you don't want old slide decks in there. Please, please, please do include the conference intro and outro slides. This is for the audio visual team. It doesn't matter if the aspect ratio is off. It's just a visual cue for the video editor so that as they're fast forwarding through the video, they can stop when they see those intro and outro slides and clip from there. So in terms of different slide decks and different formats, open up those slides, take a screenshot of it and paste in the picture of the screenshot. Again, it doesn't matter if it's perfect. It matters that there is some kind of visual cue for the AV team as they're fast forwarding things in the video recording. Alright, so that's the public slide session recordings. You will not be recorded. It's going to be just the audio and the slide transitions and whatever plays on your laptop. So any video or any demonstrations that you do, that will be recorded but you as a person are not going to be recorded. The recordings generally are uploaded to the internet within 24 hours of your presentation. We've had really great luck the last couple of conferences with the speed of this. It's pretty much out of your hands once you've delivered the session. But generally speaking, if you've been tweeting about it and you want to let people know who couldn't attend DrupalCon when your session is available, look for it within about 24 hours. For the evaluation of your session, again, you'll have that outro slide which reminds people to do an evaluation. Your future speaking at DrupalCon is in part based on these evaluations. The more people you get to fill out those evaluations and the more positive evaluations you get, the better your chances are of coming back and speaking at a DrupalCon in the future. Note that the evaluation function goes live on the first day of the conference and you should be able to review your results immediately. You go to your profile which is in the My Account setting. Now, I say probably. If you don't have access to the session information, ping me as soon as possible at the conference because there's probably something wrong and we don't want to be losing session evaluation and we want to make sure that you have access to that information. You may want to not read them right away but definitely check to see if you can access them and if there's a technical problem, we'll get it fixed as soon as we possibly can. And like I said, there have been problems in the past but we think we have it fixed. So that's sort of the end of the administration part and you may have noticed that I said probably a lot. So things unfortunately do go wrong sometimes and sometimes they all go wrong at the same conference. So please, please, please consider it your responsibility, check any of the automated processes that I've talked about and let's hope that we don't have any of this fail all the things stuff and that everything will go smoothly. But those are a few of the things that you can watch out for and let us know as organizers if there's things that aren't working because chances are it's a really easy fix for us to implement for you. So if you are an experienced presenter and you have more information now than you thought you would get out of this, I won't be offended at all if you drop off for the rest of the call. Well, I will be talking about basically audience management dealing with nerves and a couple of other sort of tips and tricks that I've gained literally a couple of decades of presenting in front of audiences. So we'll start off with nerves and the first thing that I want to remind people of is that your adrenaline is normal and in many cases that little bit of adrenaline is actually going to help you deliver a more exciting and engaging presentation than if you didn't have any adrenaline in your system at all. I've got a couple of resources in this presentation, not the same slide sort of screenshots that I had in the previous one because obviously the topic is different. But one of the ones that I do want to highlight is this tiny URL my anxiety so tiny URL dot com slash my anxiety is normal for a bit more about this. You can, you can really work towards managing your nerves by focusing on the factors that you can control and there are a lot of factors that you can control. When I first started doing public speaking at the age of 10 years old, and I got really, really nervous when I got up in front of audiences. And then I had someone tell me in grade eight so grade eight I would have been 14 years old that she was like, but you're presenting in front of all of your friends when you're presenting to a school group. So why would you get nervous? You don't get nervous talking to them in person. And it took me a few more years after that to realize or to convince my body that she would absolutely right. But that's the way I think about a Drupal Khan presentation is that these are my friends that I'm presenting to, and by controlling a number of factors that I actually have control over, I can even deliver an awesome presentation when everything goes wrong. Now, this part of the presentation addresses all the ways that people can get nervous. And poor Matt, I freaked him out, leaning into Drupal Khan Denver, because it had never occurred to him that he might or should get nervous when he was getting up and speaking in front of people. So this is not meant to make you nervous. This is just meant to help you if you do think that public speaking is something that is a little bit nerve wracking. So the section basically is my mitigate all the failures section. And the more we think about failure ahead of time and we put in place our plan B, the more we can enjoy the plan A when everything goes perfectly and smoothly, knowing that we've got that plan B to fall back on. So the first one is dealing with technical failure and the technical failure can be any number of different things, but the biggest solution here is to be prepared to tell your story without any aids and it will be impossible for you to fail. So think about if you were to give your talk in a hallway track presentation, you know, just chatting with people outside of a session room.  Forget about the slides, forget about anything else. If you've got that story, you're going to succeed. The other one is to allow the others to fix your failures where possible. And one of the things that happened to me in Chicago was the wrong audio was being piped into my room. There was absolutely nothing I could do about it. The audience knew that they were not seeing me delivering a talk on PHP, which was happening sort of one room over. So I did other things and talk to the audience instead of trying to debug the failure because really watching someone debug on stage is not very engaging. But talking to the audience and sort of getting yourself started and making jokes if you have no audio or whatever it happens to be keeps people engaged and puts them in a better mood for you to start your actual presentation when things get fixed up. The next one is computer failure. And we have not had a problem at Drupal cons ever with laptops being stolen, but you could think of a computer failure as being as simple as someone stole your laptop. It could be as simple as you've just installed the latest patches for Debian and guess what your laptop doesn't boot now, unlikely to happen because Debian rocks, but you never know.  But it's a really simple PDF of your presentation so that if you need to, you can just stick that USB stick into someone else's computer and give your talk. The next one is projector failure. Let's say, for example, your laptop and you try eight of them, none of them will connect to the projector or the bulb is died or something like that. Solution here, no problem. Just make sure your slides are uploaded to a public location, for example, the triple con website and allow attendees to download the slides and follow along on their laptop. Now, again, if you've already uploaded the slides, it's done for you and you don't have to worry about this because you can basically do like a story time read along and be like, okay, the magical fairy wave through on time to change the slide and people can follow along with you. The next kind of failure is an internet failure. This one is kind of a given. You should assume that you won't have internet. Sometimes there's a separate ethernet drop at the at the table and you can get your own internet connection for your laptop, but assume that you will not have internet assume that you'll be on the group wifi stuff and it's all going to suck. Solution for this one have a local copy of all external resources. So, for example, if you're, if you're wanting people to look at a video from YouTube, download that sucker and get it onto your laptop have screenshots instead of having to clip through a public website of all of the important things. If you are downloading something from a streamed site, I use the ant plugin on Firefox. There's one for Chrome. I can't remember what it's called in pound IRC. If you've got your favorite plugins for this kind of thing, go ahead and paste them into the pound Drupal con for people who need to download video for whatever reason. Next up, we've got microphone failure. Generally speaking, this is not your problem. However, and I cannot emphasize this enough. Do not. I don't care if you've been in a rock band since the age of two. Do not ever touch the microphone settings ever on the control board at your speaker station. Just because you've done this 100 times does not mean that the microphone board is set up in the same way or in a way that you are expecting. So the disasters that I've had in this one personally, which I've already mentioned in Chicago, the wrong audio was piped into my room. And the other one that I've seen happen in Munich, Morton adjusted the audio board to plug the soundtrack from his iTunes. That's the word I'm looking for into the room so that people could listen to music while he was getting set up. That was fine, except he didn't get it done in a way that the audio board was expecting it. And his session was recorded metal music. They didn't actually capture any of his audio. So please, please, please do not touch the mic settings on the board. Let the professional AV technicians do this for you. They're actually getting paid to be in that room, unlike those of us who are speaking and are simply volunteering our time. They will get it working the way you want it, but do not touch the board.  So if I hear of people having the microphone board, I will be very cross with you. All right, on to the next one, recording failure. And yes, this does happen. Recording failure also is not your problem unless we make it your problem. And I'll get to that in a second. So the way around a recording failure, and yes, it does happen from time to time. If you have a white paper or a blog post that is an equivalent of your talk, or if you're able to print out the speaker notes, whatever it is. It's not quite as good as capturing the video, but all of the information will be there. One of the other ways that you can mitigate this disaster is if you, when you're practicing your talk, go ahead and screencast yourself giving the presentation. And then that's a presentation that could be uploaded to the internet instead of your Drupal con recording. Finally, yes, if it did happen, if there was a recording failure, you may be asked to give your presentation again. And that did happen in Munich. I think we had three sessions that had the incorrect audio recording. So Krell was giving his audio over top of Jesper's presentation. Sometimes it happens, not very frequently.  It's a great opportunity to go through the talk again and get it recorded for posterity's sake, shall we say. Your future internet fans can take advantage of it, and generally the people who come to the second delivery of it are there to have fun with you. It's just, it is a lot more fun than the first time you present something. All right. So if we want to have zero chance of failure, here's our little checklist.  Maybe the audience has downloaded your slide deck, but you can follow along with your slides. Upload your slides to the Drupal con site ahead of time and link them from the body field. Don't just rely on the field slide, sorry, on the slide field. There you go. Have all presentation aids on a USB stick and uploaded somewhere as a zip or something like that, whether it's dumped into Dropbox or just another location in addition to the Drupal con site. Some people are putting them up on GitHub, which is pretty cool too. Download all online resources, so for example video that you need to grab from the internet. Screencast what you cannot live without, for example, a demo.  Sometimes it doesn't work, folks, and that's annoying for the audience to watch you struggle through a demo that's failing. My example of this one is Drupal con Denver. Someone came to these speaker check-ins and they were like, I don't need to do that stuff, but okay, fine, whatever, I'll do it and I'll prove her wrong. And sure enough, he couldn't get his laptop to work for whatever reason. So he was able to play the demos that he'd done of himself doing sort of a quote unquote live demo, but it was just a screencast of the live demo. So again, you may think that you won't need it, but if you do, it sure is handy to have that little backup. Have a next point here, have a white paper for your talk or an extended blog post. You can often get more information into that than just the slide deck on its own. I quite like this white paper approach. Practice your talk in an empty room, out loud, start to finish three times, and record yourself all three times. Again, that recording part can just be, it doesn't need to be a high quality recording, but if something goes wrong with your presentation, now you've got three different recordings to choose from that you can upload to the Internet for people to see. On the day of your presentation, this is a new item that I've added in here recently.   Your computer and laptop charger almost become optional if you've done everything else on this list, but the clean clothes, but I guess you could still a new t-shirt from someone who probably is running a booth with a t-shirt giveaway, but trousers, it's difficult to get a second pair if you've spilled coffee down yourself. So I'm just going to pause for a second here and make sure that folks still have audio. So can you in IRC let me know yes comma I do still have audio just so that it's not answering the question of have you lost audio to. Okay, great. And the audio sometimes does drop off if your buffering hasn't caught up to me. So I'm going to proceed because it looks like we've got the majority with audio. All right, so the next piece here is the concept of a routine. And ultimately I think that a positive routine really helps to eliminate failure and also reinforces the ritual that I think is really important in getting myself ready for presentations. But it's tricky if you're new to presenting to think of yourself as having a ritual if you've never done something before. So we'll look at the idea of sort of routine and what we can do leading up to the conference. This is just what I do. Please in pound Drupal con if you've got other things that you have as part of your ritual or your routine to get ready for presenting by all means just toss them into into the into the channel. So the first one that I want to highlight is this video and it's really funny. How to public speaking the tiny URL for this one tiny URL.com how to hyphen public hyphen speaking again tiny URL.com how to hyphen public hyphen speaking and all it's about five minutes long. I won't play it right now. And thanks Jesse for dumping in the URL into IRC. So five minutes worth of video. I mean if you can listen to two audios at once I bet some of you will probably click on the link right away. It's really funny though. And I think a really great way to think about getting ready for public speaking. And here we go. This is my my routine my ritual in in the sort of months leading up to the presentation. I probably will have thought a lot about phrasing and how I'm going to deliver the talk but I also I don't worry too much about getting the exact wording because part of what I've found for myself is that for the speeches where I've memorized word for word exactly what I'm going to say I personally am more likely to get lost and confused and mixed up if I forget the next individual word. So while using practicing and getting ready of leading up to the conference in the week before your presentation practice delivering your presentation but not necessarily thinking about just the languages and the words but actually in the Outfit that you are planning to wear on the day of and this tip came to me from. Oh, he's a pearl guy and he speaks a lot of Oskon and he delivers the Oskon speaker training. And he works with Paul Fenwick. Thank you Lorna Damian Conway. He's awesome. Okay, so he has a specific outfit that he always wears for presenting.  And he knows that it's comfortable. He knows that he can hang a lapel mic off of the collar without it pulling down at the front. It's more of a problem for women's shirts than it is for men's shirts.  So again, the week before decide what you're going to wear and practice delivering your presentation in that outfit. Ensure your intro and outro slides have been inserted into your slide deck. Again, Portland 2013 Drupal dot org slash speakers slash resources pound slides. If you haven't already grabbed those templates. Go ahead and write a packing list for all the things you'll want during your presentation. Excuse me. Everyone's packing list is going to be different, but it may include remote control VJ adapter singing for max a USB stick with your presentation on it. A printout of your slides, water bottle business cards, clean shirt and trousers for when you spell coffee down your front. So this is just your packing list. The week before your presentation get lots of sleep and eat well. So this next week coming up lots of sleep because really we all know that sleep is for after Drupal con. And if you're presenting on Thursday of Drupal con, you may not have received a lot of sleep leading up to your presentation. So the week of Drupal con on Monday or the day before, which would be oops, can I do this? Well, people hate it when I do this may 20th because my handwriting is lousy. There we go. So Monday or the day before your presentation, go find the room that you'll be presenting and present yourself introduce yourself to the team and basically thank them ahead of time. Check with them. If you are allowed to go ahead and stand up on the stage and look out the stage may not actually be set up yet if it's just sort of risers and blocks that are being placed in. So like you can check with them to make sure that the whole thing is stable and you're allowed to stand on it, but hop up on stage if it's not a problem. And yes, next week, Lorna and I are at a different conference getting ready for Drupal con. So our sleep needs to happen this week, which is why I was pausing on that one. And if you again, if you're allowed to, if it's not a problem, ask if you can set up your laptop and test your slides with projector. We've talked about this in the previous check-in. Put your slides up, go to the back of the room, make sure that they're high contrast, make sure that the font is big enough. Chances are if the room is empty, the AV folks will also give you some feedback on whether or not they think the slides are perceivable, like whether they're readable high enough contrast that kind of thing. So that's a great thing to do on Monday. Depending on when you're flying in, you may be able to do it sort of in that window of 7am to 10am while the keynote is going on as well the day of your presentation. The night before your presentation, pack up your bag, including all of your gear. You want a fully charged laptop, a power cable and a power adapter if you're coming from outside the US. You want your presentation on a USB as a PDF in case your laptop dies. Of course, you can also have the keynote or PowerPoint files or ODP open office document. Just in case the laptop you're presenting on does have that software. You want to print out of your speaker notes, whether that's just the PDF or the actual PDF of the slides printed or the notes as well. A water bottle filled up, although we should have water in the rooms for you as well. Don't forget your VGA display converter singing for the projector. A remote control if you have one. Clean trousers and a clean shirt. Again, this is a new one that I'm adding to the list for, you know, in case you have a beverage problem, a beverage spill right before your presentation. The night before your clothes for tomorrow and if you can go to bed early and sleep. If not, go to bed early and just chill out. I tend to watch crime drama the night before my presentation because I really like crime drama. All right, next one morning of your presentation. Get dressed pants on please. Actually, it's trousers on. I don't really care if you wear pants or not. But that's kind of a British thing. Anyways, look into the mirrors. Smile at yourself. You are going to rock this and visually if you. So this is kind of a weird thing. The more that you are smiling, the more likely someone is to smile back at you. And I mean, I say this on the next slide as well, but start practicing your smile because people get a lot friendlier. If you start by smiling at them eat breakfast, even if it's just an energy bar. If you don't think you're hungry, try eating something anyways. Smile a lot. I can't say this enough. And then as I mentioned before, the 7 to 10 am window can be a great one for doing a technical check in the room if you haven't been able to get in ahead of time. So, as Jake mentioned, yes, don't be afraid to admit if you're nervous. My, my only caveat on that is you don't. Once you get up on stage, you don't need to. To apologize for it. I mean, you can state that you're nervous, but it doesn't need to be something that is embarrassing or something that you need to excuse or. People really are there to support you and they want to help you and I have had some pretty awesome colossal speaking failures in terms of problems with stuttering and just massive, massive nerves. And for myself, I have found that sure you can state that you're that you're feeling nervous and you can tell people that whatever you need to do to get the reassurance that you that you personally need. People are probably going to know and they're probably going to encourage you, but you don't need to spend a lot of time apologizing for it. They're there to see your story and get excited for you about your story. So in my experience, the more that I can shift the excitement to the story, the more I focus less on the physical reaction that I'm having to being in the situation that I'm in. So making it about about sharing the story instead of simply fixating on on the nerves that that works for me. Every single person is going to be different. And we all show nervousness in different ways. So the more that that you can figure out what you need, the easier it's going to be for other people to provide that support and reinforcement for you. An hour before your presentation. I know this sounds kind of weird, but go do final P. Make sure that you don't need to go to the toilet during your own presentation. And then also go to the room that you're going to be presenting in. We do actually have a green room and Stephanie, I think has updated the FAQ on the speakers page. It is in room C 121. So again, the green room is C 121. And that should give you a quiet space to do some last minute preparation for your talk and also get out of the hallway track, which I found to be amazingly distracting before I need to present. During the setup of your, like, once you get on to the stage, by all means, if it's your time to get set up and there's still a presenter on stage doing Q&A, very politely tell them to get off. It's your time to get up now. And they can continue doing Q&A out in the hallway. There's absolutely no reason for them to eat into your time slot. First off, when you go into that room, again, introduce yourself to the AV people. They are getting paid to help you and they are lovely and friendly. I've even had people, AV technicians go and get me batteries for my remote control. They're just super friendly if I am super friendly to them first. Focus on getting yourself ready during this time. I generally defer questions about my presentation. So if people come up to me and want to chat, well, I'm getting ready. I just say, hey, look, I'm getting ready. Can we chat after the presentation or once I've got everything set up or whatever it is that I want for that particular day. I treat my setup as sacred time. It is my time for me. It is not my time for people to come up and ask me questions. Of course, people will now troll me now that I've said this, but it's my time and I need to do the things that I need to do. For me, this is easier if I minimize eye contact with the audience. In a very Canadian fashion, I would not look at you if I don't want to talk to you. This is actually a little bit more difficult with an American audience, but it's super obvious as a Canadian that if I'm not looking at you, then I'm not ready to talk to you, but that's how I do it. Before putting on your mic, you've been doing a lot of smiling, right?  It actually can make your face muscles tense up in a way that can make it more difficult to articulate words. So one of the things that can help loosen up is, and I always do an audio and I always feel ridiculous doing it, but you'll feel ridiculous doing it too. So doing a or noise before you put your mic on, what you're trying to do though is you're trying to loosen up your face muscles and you're trying to get them to be able to quickly and accurately articulate all of the words that you're going to say during your presentation. So again, before you put your mic on in the case of a lapel or lavalier mic. Finally, if you're going to test the mic, do not tap the mic, just blow into it. So I'll move my pop filter here and go. So just blow into the mic do not tap that sucker.  And once you're ready to go look out to the audience, smile, big smile to them. Finally, we are on to the actual presentation part. Smile at the audience, think about something happier, delicious, breathe in. And this one is actually, this is a trigger to the audience or a cue to the audience. So just before you start, give an audible sigh out. That will actually help to relax the audience. So it gives them an a cue, a physical cue, and not that you'll necessarily see the difference in them, but it prepares them for your beginning as well. So just, you know, sort of a descending sigh. And then you can begin your presentation. Tell your story with passion. Again, that passion is so important. At the end, say, thank you. Give the audience time to clap. They're going to want to reward you for this amazing amount of work that you've put into your presentation. Smile again. And you know what? Good job you. That's, that's it.  All right. So that's the end of my routine. There's probably been a couple of things happen in IRC. So let me just check to see if there's any questions. Nope, we're good. Okay, so let me switch right in now to the audience management part. Generally speaking, I have found that if I tell my story with passion, I have nothing to worry about. This is not like a triple issue. Well, it's just not, they're just people are much friendlier in person than they are in the issue queue. So there's a few things though in terms of how to handle the audience because different presenters like doing different things. So the more clues that you can get the audience, the more that they're going to behave in a way that is consistent with what you would like to do. So one of the first things is dealing with questions and or one of the only things rather is dealing with questions. I find excuse me. The audience just doesn't really know how to behave because every presenter will be different. So there's effectively three times you can take questions. The first one is at the end of the presentation. And so you can say to the audience, I'd like to keep this presentation as tight as possible so we can have more time for questions at the end. Say this at the beginning, obviously, please write down your questions during the presentation and ask them at the end. You could also ask them to tweet their questions and then you can review the Twitter feed afterwards. So that's the first one is to hold questions to the end. And Lorna, I see your question and let me just go through the three and then I'll come to it. The second one is during the presentation, you can pause at specific points and help people. I will take questions after I've explained this one piece and then again at the end of the presentation. So you can take them at specific points and of course the third time to take questions is basically at any time. And this is easier in smaller rooms where people are more likely to want to engage with you in a conversation. And depending on the kind of presentation you have, it may actually be more appropriate to stop and start the slide deck and really interact with the audience. And again, just giving them a clue at the beginning by saying if you have any questions at any time, please raise your hand, wave it loudly, whatever you need to do, but let people know that it's appropriate for them to jump in at any time. So the question from Lorna, do I take questions in different formats depending on the size of the audience or some other factors? It really for me depends on, again, when I'm making the decision, it depends on what the topic is. Some of my slide decks are, they're not interactive. And quite frankly, I spent a lot of time developing the flow of the presentation and I just don't want to be interrupted because it's about, for me, a smooth delivery of a generally shorter presentation. And then I've got other presentations that I'm more interested in basically workshopping the ideas with the audience, in which case the way that the presentation is designed is to have people jumping in and participating and actively engaging in the information as part of the presentation. So again, for me, it depends on how I've structured the presentation. It's become less about my nerves and dealing with trolls and those kinds of issues because I'll just structure the talk in different ways. So for you, it could be tell people to hop into an IRC channel. It could be tell them to tweet. It could be like all of these are completely acceptable. But I do recommend that people, as in the presenters, decide ahead of time how they want to engage with the audience and then ensure that the audience knows that these are the rules for this particular presentation. Does that answer your question, Lorna? Excellent. Okay. So the next one. So, okay, now you've got some questions. How are you going to deal with them? Generally speaking, I have found that there are only a couple of reasons that people ask the question and really very few of them have to do with people not understanding the material. I would say, you know, if we're going to divide it down, maybe 10% of the time people are confused and need clarification. And those ones generally are the easiest ones to answer. You just need to repeat a word or repeat a concept and then they get it. More likely the person wants to expand on the material or even more likely they want to tie the material to their own circumstances. And what I find is this tying the material to the own circumstances is like, okay, so I understand that. But I have this super weird edge case that has really nothing to do with your presentation, but I want answered anyways. Those are really annoying questions. So when they get asked, I'll give you some tips for those kinds of questions. Obviously, if someone's confused about what you've said, clarify what you have to say in your presentation. But when a question is asked, make sure that it gets captured. There are going to be floor mics. So make sure that that person and there may be handhelds as well in terms of the, if there's super big rooms and you need to pass the mic down to someone. But getting the original question captured in the recording is really quite helpful. The next thing to do, and this is a pause technique for you as a presenter. The next thing to do is to repeat the question, but rephrase it in a generic way, if possible, to make it relevant to the whole audience. And as you're rephrasing the question, you can decide, is the answer relevant to the core message of my presentation? And if it's not relevant, should I defer answering? So if someone has this super weird edge case thing, when you rephrase it, you can decide, you know what? This is really about that one person and it's not going to help the other 50 people in the room at all. So I'm not going to answer it right now. I'm going to get them to, here we go, defer answering the question. So you don't need to feel obliged to answer and you don't need to panic if you don't know the answer. Most commonly, if it's a super weird edge case thing, pretty specific and long-winded, can you please email it to me? By the way, there is zero obligation to actually answer this email. That's our little secret. If you don't know what the answer is, you can say, I have no idea. Next question. My mom went to see the Dalai Lama and it was like a stadium filled with 660,000 people. And this guy got up and asked a super long-winded question and the Dalai Lama's answer was, I have no idea. Next question, like he just didn't even entertain the person. So next question, or rather the next option here is great question, does anyone else know? If you actually want to know what the answer is, you can use the audience as a resource. Someone may be able to Google the answer, someone may have specific experience working on it, but you don't need to be the expert on every single weird thing that gets asked in the presentation. Finally, and this one is especially great for a Drupalcon, great question. Can you set up a birds of a feather session? Let people know on Twitter and then people who are interested get the questioner to stand up and find that way people will see who that person is and they can all sort of clump off and cluster off. It means that at the end of the presentation, if you have a number of these, you've identified experts in the room and you're not going to get as many people hammering you with questions. Maybe you want that attention, maybe you don't. But if you've established a number of experts, it means that at the end of the experience, there's other people to go to. And depending on how I'm feeling on that particular day, I maybe don't want to be pestered with questions at the end of it. So I'm just as happy for someone else to be the expert.  So it's kind of nice sometimes to be able to identify those subject matter experts. Okay. Finally, I've got a couple of tips here on seeing the audience. And what I mean by seeing the audience is when you look out from the stage, who is it that you're presenting to? There are presentations that I prepare and I think, oh, I'm going to have 5,000 people show up for this presentation because it's the awesomest. And then I get 12 because actually I was the only one who's interested. You know, it happens. But the people who show up are always the right people who show up unless they weren't. And we did talk about in the very first one, getting those folks out of the room as fast as possible so that you can get really good evaluations on your presentation. I'll explain a little bit more about that in a couple of slides. So to see the audience, you can see them as 1 person and look at no individual person. You can look only at the back row where you can't identify faces or you can look only at the, you know, the 1st couple of rows and identify friendly faces. I tend to look at everyone in the audience and feel really smug about how I'm able to have this conversation about my favorite topic, which I Americanized with all of these people at once. And it really is what I do. I love looking out at the audience and seeing that people are there because they care about this thing that I have to say as well. Sort of with a little bit of a caveat, though, because I know that I need to keep my expectations low. People at conferences are tired. They're overwhelmed, maybe hungover and quite possibly jet lagged. So people will sleep during my presentation. People will write emails during my presentation. They're not going to maintain eye contact with me at all times. You know, it's like I get excited that people are there, but I don't demand too much of my audience. The 1 thing that I do not tolerate and I will stop presentation if I am having problems with this. I will not tolerate people talking during my presentation. It disrupts the people who are around them who are trying to listen to the presentation and it prevents me from being able to determine if they're confused about the material or talking about where they're going for lunch. I encourage you as well as a presenter. Either, if you're not comfortable doing it yourself, have someone in the audience, sort of in the first couple of rows that you can signal to and will get up and go and stop the talkers if it's a problem for you. You do not need to tolerate this and in part you don't need to tolerate it because it will disrupt the people who are around the talkers. So, be excited that they came, have low expectations and don't tolerate bad behavior. Kind of my final tip, haters going to hate. Some people are just negative. You probably know this from the issue queue and it's not anything to do with what you've done. It's all about them just being haters. I like to get the haters out of the room as fast as possible with a pre-talk overview. So, I tell them what I'm going to be talking about and I say to them, if this is not of interest to you, you should leave now because it's not going to be of interest to you. So, why would you sit here? Go find a different session or go hang out in the hallway track or whatever it is that you want, but be really clear to people. The next thing I do is I make sure that people understand it's about them having a good time, like you don't want to waste their time. And if you can get them out of the room, it means you've got a better chance of having only the people who are going to love your talk and be excited to be there. There's probably going to be some people who are checking email who didn't hear you tell them what the talk was going to be about. So, they're not going to bug anyways. But, yeah, it's just, you know, give people a chance to be where they want to be during your Drupal con session. The pre-talk overview during the recording, generally speaking, you won't know when the recording starts. I tend, I personally tend to do this as part of my, like, very first my intro slide, not the about me slide, but like before I even start my slide deck. If you're not comfortable doing this, that's absolutely fine. Again, it's just something that I personally do. I try to clear the room of people who aren't interested or who've misread my description before I start delivering my actual presentation. So, a quick summary of everything we've gone through. You've been listening for an hour. I'm super impressed that everyone is stuck through it. So, thanks so much. Remember that this is exciting to deliver a presentation. A little bit of adrenaline is completely normal. Being a little bit nervous is completely normal. And again, it gets you excited and gives often a more engaging and fun delivery for the audience if you've got that little bit of adrenaline. Practice telling your story with your slides. If you can, go ahead and record it. Prepare for technical failure by telling your story without your slides. So try, you know, may not be the identical presentation, but see if you can give that story without your slide deck in place. Have and use a packing checklist. And I had a few suggestions earlier in the presentation of what you might want to put on that packing checklist. There's also one at the very bottom of the speaker resources page for Drupalcon. And ultimately, I am really looking forward to hearing your story at Drupalcon and I'm looking forward to seeing almost all of you in Portland. But one of you, Lorna, I will see you next week in Chicago where we have a couple of presentations at conferences before we head out to Drupalcon Portland and Drupalcon has now thrown confetti. So obviously it's the end. Thanks everyone. I'm going to end the recording and hop over into IRC for any follow up questions. So once again, thanks everyone and I'm so looking forward to seeing you in Portland.


webinar. The webinar is live now. I see Guy. I see Guy. There's Guy. I feel like this is Rumper Room. Okay, he is there. Oh yeah, everybody's popping in all quickly. Okay, so I just had to log out and log in. That's all. Okay, so I don't see you yet though. Oh, there's everybody. Okay. Okay, now, but we probably don't have Joe. Here's Ian. Ian? Hi. I'm here. Beautiful blossoming tree. Yeah, it's okay now. I got it going. Yeah. You can't log. Okay. You have to log in with the link, not the specific zoom code for some reason. At least that's what I found. Yeah, you have to use your special link that's sent to only you. That's right. And you're all in now, it looks like. We've got 10 participants, so where'd they go? I've got you guys, but well, sorry, this is always supposed to go. This never goes like it should.  Okay, so I think everybody is here. Okay. All right, I'm going to start recording. We're recording. All right. Well, great. Thanks, everyone, for joining us. I'll call this meeting of the board of directors of the community television of Santa Cruz County to order. And it looks like it's 506 on, let's say February 22nd. And with the secretary call the order. Yeah, Chair Lanier. I'm here. Yes. Director Maziarz. Here. Director Hall. Here. Director Mannheim. Director O'Driscoll. Director Shaw. Director Gudger. Here. Director Granados. I hope I pronounced that right correctly. Costing up. It's Christina Granados. I'm here. Okay. Thank you. Director Warren. All right. Thanks, everyone, for joining us. Oral communications. If we have any from the public visiting any person may address the board for the oral communications period. I don't see anything. So we'll move on. Chair, do we have a, so if somebody from the public did want to comment, would they just raise their hand if they're on the public Zoom? Yeah. Okay. I did mention to a former board member who was a colleague of Dori Steinman that we were going to be honoring her today. So I kind of let her know kind of last minute. That raises a good question. Those folks would not be visible to us. Is that right, Becca, but they're visible to you? Yes, there is. I mean, there are none now, but if we wanted to make them visible, I could change them into a panelist if we want to. But, but they just can't join the meeting and appear here. Just so that we don't miss somebody who does want to visit or. Oh yeah, I can. So just so you know, they should show up as attendees. Yes. Participant panel. Yeah. Yeah. If you open up your participant panel, you can see attendees or zero. And if you click on that, you'll see the list. And then we can see their hands raised and we can answer them in order. And I just click them off once you're talking to them and they go to the bottom and they could ask questions. Okay. Terrific. Thanks. We learned something every time. Okay. Thank you. Moving on to number three, consideration of late additions to the agenda, additions and deletions to the consent agenda or regular agenda. Anybody? Seeing none. Let's move to the consent agenda. Number four, approve the board meetings of, well, let's, I don't need to go through everything. We have the board meetings of January 25th, approved executive committee meetings of January 29 and approved recommendation to finance committee to accept January 2021 financial reports. Any comments on any of those? Okay. I'll consider a motion, an intake motion. Yeah. I just had a quick question. I mean, a lot of times finance committee director, chair hall, make comments on the, you know, now they're no longer on the finance committee. I don't want to take up the full boards time too much by, you know, asking a million questions. But if he had any comments on, on the financial reports, I'd love to hear them. There actually there'll be ones on the next. Well, a couple of quick things. We put some additional funding or advertising costs went up because Becca reported that we weren't getting good responses to some of our ads for employees. So she had to pay for an advertisement. It'll also be there's be another report we got from her in terms of the agenda or the financial reports that'll be on her comments. And I'll leave it for that. Tom presented his normal report in terms of how we're doing and what's called facility equipment and use, which is one of our major budget items. We're still ahead. But what happened and the reason it went down and you may have seen it is the, we had three offices vacate. And so we've, Becca reported that there is one, one potential new one and also somebody is expressed interest in renting the studio. So that number should go up next time. Those are the major aspects of this. There's one other aspect of payments to satellite, which is another item on the agenda. So those are the highlights of it, unless you had any questions, I'm glad to answer them. No, that just about covers it. I mean, I've some curiosity about another thing, but I could ask back online if I'm that curious. So with that, I'll thank you and I will make a motion that we approve the items on the consent agenda as presented. Second, Joe Hall. All right, we have a motion and a second to approve the consent agenda. All in favor, aye. We don't need a roll call, I don't think. Okay, that is approved. Consent agenda is approved and we'll move on to the regular agenda. This is a remembrance of the contributions of former board member Dory Steinman, who is our capitol represented for 11 years. We, this was called their attention by director Gudger and it seemed appropriate to, I wasn't aware of her or her contributions and so I wanted to just spend just a moment to learn about that. Anyone, either Keith or Joe, would you like to say anything? Well, Keith, why don't you go ahead and then I'll finish up, because you knew her through productions. I know we're through the board. So yes, I worked with Dory quite a while until she asked that we find a replacement and that's how we got Larry, which is great also. She was on the board through, as Joe will tell you, a very tumultuous period. We appreciated her being there. We appreciated that she had experienced a video production, whereas many board members at that time didn't have professional experience. I also worked with her, as Joe mentioned, on some productions you may have seen in her obituary. She mentioned the Toby production. That was a couple of shows that we did. I think I directed those for her. So it was interesting times. It was a different community television, that's for sure. And so I'll turn it over to Joe. And different is the pleasant way to say tumultuous. But what you didn't mention, and I didn't realize, is she produced like a hundred and some odd programs on the second half of life, as I think what it was, and she produced a book. But what I remember about her, she was very quiet. We'd have all these raging debates, and it would rage right over her. She raised her hand and everybody had to stop and listen, because she didn't yell out or she didn't make this emotional stand. And one of the times I should have listened to her pretty carefully, and I told Keith and some of the others about it, is the treasurer resigned for some reason. I can't remember what happened. And all of a sudden, I heard Doris say, well, I think we should nominate Joe Haaland. At that point, I was so exhausted from the meeting. I wasn't paying attention. Somebody else seconded and they voted on it. And I leaned over and asked her, what did you nominate me for? Because I thought it was some committee.  Didn't you hear me? And I said, no, because she talked pretty softly. And everybody else was exhausted from whatever the big deal was in the day. So that's how I became treasurer. It was full. But I used to walk her back to her car, because our meeting place was in a location that was not what I'd call it. It's good for any two people to walk back to car late at night. And the meetings didn't go. And I'll keep this short, because our meetings go into 10 and 11 o'clock sometimes. And we used to talk about all sorts of different things about life. She was a wonderful person. And I enjoyed my time working with her on the board. And she brought stability to a pretty unstable situation.  Very nice. Thank you, Joe. And that was a good move to nominate you as treasurer. That was a very interesting number of parts. We're indebted to her for that. And as well as all the productions she did, I had no idea. It's pretty amazing. So yeah, long life well lived, the Renaissance woman, if there ever was one. Thank you. Let's move to number eight, Considered Finance Committee recommendation to approve satellite fee increase and repayment approval increase to $2,500 starting February 1st of this year. Joe, who speaks to this Joe? I think Becca would be the best and Tom and Keith have been the most in most closely involved with it. And I think Becca can probably sum it up. We talked about it once before at our special meeting, but Keith or Tom, why don't you, I don't know if you want to start up Rebecca, why don't you start and then they can add comments and I'll shut up. Okay. Well, our original contract with satellite included $1,500 a month as a management fee. And they over the and they were also supposed to receive 17 or a profit, a little bit of profit 25% of everything we made over $17,000 a month. And they calculated that to be enough for them to make it worthwhile for them to help us out. And we have never reached $17,000 a month. So we can, we just haven't yet. And we've gotten as high as $15,000. And I believe we'll go higher now that the things have changed for coworking, but be that as it may. Barbara wanted to raise the her rate of $1,500 to $25,000 in order to get the money that she thought she would have gotten through profit and imagine management fee. And so we are, we've entered into negotiations with the new contract with her because that our contract currently says $1,500. So in order to we would we would like to give it to her. And so we need your approval to do that. And we're only asking you to approve it until we finish the contract. And then we'll come back again with another request. I'll note that the finance committee talked about this on Friday and recommends approval of the, of the increase. Correct. Tom or Keith, you want to mention anything in addition? I don't really have anything to add. I know we have a sort of related discussion that we'll have in closed session on lease negotiations and and but I think Beck has covered up pretty well. Okay. Andrea? Question. So the way it's phrased is repayment. So is this is this just going forward or are we going back or is this retroactive? Is this retroactively active? Pardon me. Well, she wanted to raise it earlier. And we we started this, we started, she started, well, in, we wanted to go back to February. And she has requested we pay her four months previous to that. But I didn't think that we had put that on the agenda. I think that was I, I think the retroactive is just for February because we're in for it. It's too late. She's already been paid for February. So the retroactive is just for the month of February. Correct. Okay. Thanks for the clarification. Yeah, I wanted to say that what we're basically doing here is to smooth the negotiations, we would like to go on and start paying her this amount so that it works. We have a better footing for our negotiations. And that's why it's on the agenda now as opposed to when the contract is finalized. Larry? Yeah, I maybe I missed it in there. Is there any sort of a board resolution or anything like that that goes with this? Or is this a verbal approval? I think it would be a minute, an emotion would do it. Okay. I think a motion and we should vote, we should probably have a roll call vote on it. Anybody else otherwise entertain a motion to consider the approved the finance committee recommendation to approve this, to approve the satellite fee increase and retain it? I would move approval. We have a motion by director Mannheim. I'll second. Second by director Gudger. Let's have a roll call on this. Okay. Director O'Driscoll. Yes. Director Gudger. Yes. Director Warren. Yes. Director Maziarz. Yes. Director Mannheim. Yes. Director Hall. Yes. Director Granados. Yes. Director Laurent. Yes. Chair Lanien. Yes. Okay. Proved unanimously. Thank you all. This is a fun one. Number nine, authorized the purchase of up to 25 production kits not to exceed $43,000 funded by youth grant for student video production classes. Becca. Yeah. So we're very excited that the youth grant committee has been meeting for several months and we put together a new sort of pandemic program that addresses the challenges that students are facing because they're home alone. Well, not entirely alone, but they're not in school in a group. So we couldn't do our usual youth grant because it requires a classroom teacher with knowledge and television production. And our goal there was for kids to learn enough to go out to learn whether they like video or not, but also to go out and be job ready, be able to get a job in the business. So now, since that's not possible, we thought we might be able to reach a lot more kids if we took some of those parameters away. So what we've come up with is a temporary plan where kids, we give kids a kit to make video that's pretty intuitive. So we've made a selection of products that are just really easy to use that we think they can use on their own and create video. And our goal is we have several prongs to this. We want them to experiment and play and learn if they have an interest and an aptitude in video. So we can sort out or they can sort themselves out as who's interested in this as a career path and who's not. Because the facts are friendly. It'd be great if they find out they're not now before they spend a lot of money to figure out this is not a good thing. So we are going to provide a fun kit that I'll describe in a minute. We're going to give it to groups of kids who have some supervisor, either a teacher or a tutor or maybe the Boys and Girls Club or the Girl Scouts or things like that. And they will get these kits each their individual so they can use them on their own. They will make their videos and upload them to us and we will eventually put them on TV. So they get the equipment for a month and they have to make a two-minute video with it that we can use. And then they can also experiment and do whatever they want with the equipment and figure out what they like. So they might try claymation or animation or stop action or news reports or PSA styles or whatever they want. We just want them to play and get them to be interested in digital media and see if they have a knack for it. So we want to buy 25 kits because that would outfit a full classroom at one time or something like the Boys and Girls Club or 4-H, something really big. And then we might also outfit like just some homeschooling pods or smaller groups. Like we're working to save our shores to find a group of kids because they go and partner with organizations like with schools and teach a science class sort of like Sea Odyssey does and then kids are responsible to do a report after. Or they have to do a report or some kind of activity. They have to take action. And so what Save Our Shores is hoping is that they will take action with our kits and do some sort of report on whales or plankton or whatever they whatever they're studying at the time with Sea Odyssey and Save Our Shores. So those are all coming but right now we have a UCSC teacher who has a pod of homeschoolers who were Montessori school kids and she's got four of them. It's a great group because it's two elementary kids and two junior high kids. So we can outfit them and we can, this is our bait to test. So we can see how it works for them. And she's a very engaged newer teacher and she's willing to let us know the barriers that the different age groups face and what they like best and what doesn't work for them. And we can find out from parents what they think because it's a nice small group. We can have a lot of contact with them and get some really good information so we can fine-tune our program as we go ahead. And once we get excited students I want to be able to put the gear in their hands like pretty quickly. So I want to buy it all. I don't want to buy it all now but I'd like you to approve the full package and as we gain students we'll buy more gear. So we'll never have gear sitting on the shelf not being used but we will have it ready. We'll have the money approved and we'll be able to get it and I can usually get it in about a week. So even if we had a big classroom we could get them gear in a week or so and that would be good. I don't want them to like for the semester to end before we get them the gear. So that's why we're asking for the approval now and it's a fun easy thing. It's an iPad which is easy to use. We'll put it together so the microphone plugs in and they've got a nice microphone and iPad and a very nice tripod and it all comes in a backpack so they can't lose it and we've got a system for marking it and everything. In fact the iPads will be engraved with our name on them so we won't lose those and we've got documents for the parents to sign and that sort of thing and we hope to start with this simple beta test with giving it to the kids and letting them have some fun giving us some video to put on TV and then they get something on television which are very excited about and then we can expand it as we're going to we have ideas for the future like adding a community group online somewhere like a private one not where anybody else could get in but where kids can they can have some peer-to-peer interaction like coach each other answer questions ask questions and our idea is to get some of the university students to monitor to take on we'll get some interns to monitor the group and answer questions and you know watch out for you know bullies and that sort of thing and then we want to ultimately maybe add a contest so kids can kind of compete and we can give prizes for the best videos and different categories but it's like too much for us to flesh out now we wanted to just kind of get rolling and see from teachers once we get a few groups through we can then approach the the leaders of those groups and say would this would this inspire the kids would it be too much would they like to do it and we get more feedback from people who know what they're doing with kids so that's where we are and so i'm i'm hoping that you can approve this for me so i can order gear tomorrow for the four students we have online all right thank you very much um entertain that joke i i like this i mean having had two kids it's always kind of a uh you worry if you get something to somebody but we've had so much trouble engaging the other program you had getting the teacher and this and that this seems like a it fits more into kind of the age group we're trying to meet and i kind of like the idea and i'm glad you're giving it a try i'm i really think it's a great approach to doing something a little simpler that's than we've tried before and so go for it thank you director granados so this is really exciting it sounds awesome and i really love the passion and creativity i hear beckon and just putting this together um and i can certainly think of a bunch of ways that hopefully i could support in this but i'm just curious what is the age group that you're targeting i know this is a youth grant but are you thinking primarily because it sounds like you you're you're thinking about pretty broad range from elementary school all the way through college am i hearing that right well we're all the way through high school um we would certainly entertain college but we um and that's something that maybe david could help us on we know i notice that cabrillo there i haven't seen there's a lot of video education there um there is digital media though so maybe it's rolled into that and ucs he has an excellent film program so i don't think that they need our help i'd like to get them more involved in the mentoring aspect of it i know that um the watsonville center i can think of one professor that might be interested but i mean that's that's helpful so you're thinking pay for like elementary through 12th grade right now yeah but if you had it if you yeah but i would be happy to entertain older kids if you if you have a group i was just thinking ucs he's got they've got very nice studios and nice gear so i think we need to help them but if there's there are other groups that i don't know everything so if you know a group that could use it we've got the we have the funds to do this and that's something i wanted to mention to you all and it's in my report but we get money from the county every year for this reason it's the only thing we can use it for so we want to we want so if there are more kids and we can buy more gear dr warren yes uh you know i think this is an exciting idea um becker you're you're right uh video production is really rolled into digital media but i don't think that it holds a candle to ucs see for their involvement but um you know getting production equipment like this that's simple into into the hands of youth is is a marvelous idea and i think that there can be a lot come out of it thank you i'm dr mazias thank you chair so uh yeah i i'm glad you mentioned uh becker and highlighted that the fact for our newer board members that this is money that's earmarked and as as tom says you know we've had mixed we we have had three previous grantees and and um had some success that way but it hasn't been as as it's been a little bit harder to find um you know find groups that meet all of our criteria so i'm really excited by this this prospect and and i did want to you know you know in your introductory remarks you mentioned something about um that you know people looking to do this as a career but i think i'll just mention that you know in the world that we live in now even if i think just like like coding people see coding now as a kind of a general purpose skill even if you're not going to be a software developer having some skills in coding can it can be useful in a lot of different areas so i think it's the same thing with um digital video and that i think as we're in a much more media rich environment i think people in all sorts of different um fields social sciences or you know business um will be we'll find these sorts of skills useful so i'm hoping that we can get these equipment into hands especially you know and a lot of kids these days i've been amazed what my daughter can do with her iphone right so i think a lot of kids these days have devices so i'm hoping that we can also um get these into the hands of some low-income folks you know i edited uh the i've been doing involved with the um the teen fashion show and i know we had some some uh really amazing submissions last year because the pandemic everybody shot their own footage and uh there were some submissions from south county which i don't know what they were shooting on but they looked like they were you know not iphones they were very low quality and and they're wonderful pieces and such but they weren't well represented so i'm hoping that we can also uh get this equipment into the hands of people who may not have access to iphones and ipads um and even people who have those you know having a good tripod having a good microphone will certainly um allow them to do quality of production that's beyond what they could do with just their their stock devices well i think you're right and i think that storytelling is really a key skill these days no matter how you're doing it the ability to tell a story it will help you in business and life so it's a good it's a good thing to learn it also makes you collect your thoughts and put them down in an orderly way so and the other thing i want to mention for our um our new representative our new board member from watsonville we do have gear at digital nest and also watsonville high school so kids in south county do have access to really nice gear that we provide so and then now it'd be great if we could get it in the little in the little hands of the actual of more kids out there and that's that's why i'm hoping christina can help with tom did you have a question yeah i just wanted to add you you mentioned that we get this money from the county um every year and uh beca and i for the rest of the board i wanted them to know that we went and talked with um our county contact what talked this through with them and sent something to the to him to give to the board since this is something that they approve and got very positive feedback so they like this idea as well terrific um i'll entertain a motion to authorize the purchase of the i'll move approval of the purchase second and motioned by and rector maziars second by director driscoll all those in favor say aye i do we need i think on general we should do roll call okay thank you yeah okay sorry uh director driscoll yes director gudger yes director warren yes director maziars yes director granados yes director manheim yes director hall yes director rent yes cheerlead laudian yes all right approved unanimously and so ordered um now we'll have a discussion of committee assignments with new directors who can lead this i'm not as familiar with some of the committees but we each sit on different committees um at least one or two and some of the meetings are very infrequent um we can speak to what we have here well i'd like to mention that i've i've talked to david who's one of our new board members about the specific area and he has something he wants to discuss with us so i'd like to turn it over to him all right great director one um well i think we're all very aware of of how covid has um affected all organizations but especially the classroom and especially teaching and learning and i think that along with hard times like this there is there is opportunities and um most teachers that are working trying to do online teaching are having real struggles some of them are being very innovative and um parents are having enormous struggles my neighbor has five five kids they're all in school and they're all being um uh taught online and here is this amazing use of technology but there is much to spread around about it and educate others about it and i think that there's many different angles of approach here but keith and i've been talking about the possible need of a committee an education committee that's really um really investigating this and coming up with strategic strategies and so forth for addressing some of these needs and i would be willing to be on that committee and keith has volunteered and uh who who else might like to join us and is this appropriate um i think it's very appropriate sounds like a very very good idea any other directors wish to chime in or participate actually i i don't but i think it's a good idea and and when the pandemic started i had this idea look we have a couple tv channels that are here during the day and it was a great resource but how you connect that with the education system having been on a school board i tell you is so many steps it just thought wore me out but uh i can't see how it can't be a good idea to somehow get something on where the kids can go look at a tv set that has a exciting kindergarten teacher exciting second grade teacher for an hour or two to give the teachers a break and it just seems like a natural and how you interface it with the education system and how it's structured is a phenomenal challenge but i think it might work out i don't know how but uh i commend you for thinking about it and i think it's more important to work on that we have a lot of other little committees but they very rarely meet and this is something dealing with problems today and possibilities today i think we might want to tap elizabeth for this um because she's in that she's on the um she works for the office the county office of education so she would have some she would have some clout we could probably get some real information from from inside with her and she would have perspective that we don't have um david you have the perspective but another another uh another person in in um education at the primary level would be good as well and you know i don't want to volunteer somebody like i got volunteered by dory but i was gonna throw out the thought to christina because over the years i found that some of the education innovations we've had have been more readily adopted and used and and there was a higher interest level in the pahero district and there's been in the other districts like aptos has one of our grants for a uh video production program and there've been other classroom and so i don't know i just thought i'd throw out and see if you would like to to to kind of give a representation for the south county because i've just been impressed over the years including my time on the school board that the pahero district has bigger challenges but they actually seem to approach them in a positive way let's hear from christina sure i mean this is a committee that i would certainly love to be a part of i personally am more focused on higher education kind of work but i've certainly interfaced with the pahero valley um unified school district mostly through my census work but i definitely have folks that i could reach out to um some teachers that i know so i think that's really exciting exciting and i i would echo that i think that because sometimes the needs that are having to be addressed are a little more complex there's a lot more sort of creativity and a little bit more of a enthusiasm in terms of trying things that are new and different so um i would i would share in that observation um and i would certainly be happy to be a part of that committee great thank you and i apologize for volunteering you but it seemed to be a natural when i started thinking about what uh keith had started talking about with david sonia just a thought but i'm not going to volunteer anybody for anything else that's just one thought no apologies and i have to say i did hear you so i didn't actually just not hear you and then suddenly got volunteered so you are fair in letting me know that you are volunteering i wanted to point out that we don't have an action item on the agenda for this month so what we were talking about is we'll get the interested parties together and come up with a proposal to bring to the march board meeting okay terrific thank you should we move on to the or reported the executive director okay and that's in your backup too if you wish to follow along okay i'm gonna just okay so uh this report um for new board members i always report on the previous month so that i have all the numbers and uh so this month is for this uh reports for january the first month of 2021 so um we um we have applied for the california relief grant which i've reported to you before um our application was moved to round two so um we didn't have to do anything we're just in the round two part so we're just waiting um we're eligible for a grant of $15,000 and we are just in the we're just in the queue the edl edl is the same our status is still funding and we are in the queue uh for co-working oh i'm sorry i think i i did not say this is the financial part of my report um for co-working our um our break-even number in my report says 10,000 but it actually we lowered it for the pandemic budget to 8,000 and in january we only earned 65 um 100 um hundred dollars which is um because as joe mentioned a whole bunch of people left at the end of december so we are filling those offices now and um uh that is where we are i think we'll i think we are going to meet our goal uh for february though under paid services uh our government meeting service provided coverage for 15 government meetings in january and produced 10 webinars and we also did some webinars that were also telecast we are doing the public health conferences now which are um it's a great service and um it is uh we're happy to do it and it's great to get paid to do it as well um we're currently hosting those press conferences twice a week now under facilities and equipment we had a covid 19 exposure in um at the uh right at the end of december so in january we um had a customer who learned he had covid he didn't have symptoms and he was in the building by himself on a sunday a couple of people came in though and he talked to them so we had to contact everybody who was directly exposed we alerted all of our our whole membership including the ctv membership and the co-working membership we closed for a day and had a special team come in and uh clean the office and they used an antivirus fog thing to make sure they got everywhere and all the cracks and crevices and uh we had a lot of a lot of protective gear in place we have uvc lights in our air conditioning system or our hvac system and we also have air purifiers several of them on the floors and we use uvc lights in the offices after people leave and the good news is no one was sick no one became sick and the customer has recovered and is back at work and our um our staff report um our staff members um every year the california requires that people take a sexual harassment prevention training and we have completed that for this year we've hired two new video technicians and one of them is one of our previous interns from last year from ucsc so we're really happy that that has created a little bit of a pipeline for great employees and um i have a couple of staff notes uh this month uh our webinar service really took off and we have five new clients now who just just came in the last month or so and they've all come from recommendations from our other original clients and um that is thanks to ian berry our co-working manager he's taken over the management of the service he does all the orientations for new clients now in all the scheduling and he hosts actually the um the more difficult meetings he does the hosting and he also trains our government technicians to host meetings and um we are so busy now that ian it's training two two of our technicians as we speak and they'll be doing they'll be learning not only to do the government meeting service for video for the television but also to do the webinars as well so i just want to commend ian for this is not the job he signed up for but he took it on and he has done it so well that people are referring people to us so that that's a really a great testament to his good work and also uh this month we received or in january we received a hundred dollar donation from a couple who wrote me and said that they had a family member who was being honored by the board of supervisors and they had wanted to see that meeting and couldn't because one of them was in the hospital so they called victor and he uh went back and found the meeting and made a copy of it and sent it to them and they were so happy they sent me a nice note about victor and a donation for ctv so i just want to thank victor for his great work for the community he's always he's wonderful with the public he's just the best and so a little report on our youth grant which are very familiar with now we continue to work with save our shores we had we we had talked to one teacher but it didn't work out for her this semester so we'll talk to her again and save our shores is looking for other teachers and we did we are we have found another teacher through ucsc which i've already reported on and i've already talked to you about the youth grant equipment so i guess i don't need to talk to you about that either so that's my report for january all right let's see you're back um thank you very much for that i really have not nothing much to report my i wanted to give everybody can i make a comment on that yes please sorry i um Becca and everyone else i just want to let you know that in the legislature right now there's some potential legislation that may make the virtual meetings permanent even after we go to in person which we predicted like a month into this around here we're like the Pandora's box has been open it's not going away so you know that that's something to look for and you know we were kind of looking i mean from our environment is different but everyone's going to be you know it's going to be a big a big lift for folks when they have to go back and do the virtual meetings so you know i think it's a great opportunity for community television to kind of go in there and you know we're not using you now but we made the future for that but when i say we i mean me so just to let you know it's not it hasn't been passed yet but i there's a lot of a lot of traction for it so that's great to hear i kind of suspected that people would really enjoy this staying at home and doing the meetings and once it's all ironed out and you figured out how to do it and how to get a background and put people's names on things that it actually is really nice and it's recorded so there's you know there's documentation i think i'm happy that's great thank you for that and you know i actually participated in one of the webinars that ian did it was in the libel parking program there were two of them the last one had 119 people and i was thinking what that would be like in person it would be more interesting there but there everybody got a chance to talk nobody got a chance to grandstand and everybody got their opinion out and it went very well the only hitch wasn't anything to do with ctv is the supervisor who was running the meeting had a bad connection which was kind of interesting but everybody worked through it but i i was impressed at how much information came out from people and nobody was able to dominate it with the little ciber on so it's fascinating to watch and that's great well i i will um just reiterate my um thanks in admiration for ian's work and for victor too i mean that's really great to have those folks with us and just doing what they do so thanks for calling that out they've been really good to adapt to this weird way of working they've it's hard for them in many respects but they've really risen to the occasion that's great um really i have nothing much more to add i just wanted to include our calendar for the coming year so directors know sort of what's what's the meaning when the meetings are and then what sort of is the schedule i also hope to send out a calendar invites to everybody um in advance so that'll show up on your calendars and i have meant to do that for this meeting but i wanted to make sure that the calendar that we do have is accurate uh tom director manheim yeah um yeah just sorry just uh one note um i think if i remember correctly from the finance committee meeting that the county has asked to get our budget earlier this year so we'll be actually bringing that in march okay next month okay thanks for that i'll make a note okay let's see i scroll back to my agenda um any well that is appropriate right there staff request for word staff request for specific items so we'll have a budget item on the agenda next month um any announcements different announcements anybody well one thing real quickly i don't want to belabor it but keith and uh when you're when you're working on the committee i already talked to the county superintendent of education when the whole uh covid shutdown happened about ctv they were so overwhelmed he was i just dropped it but i think the county office would would be really interested in taking a lead so elizabeth could probably help you but i wouldn't be shy about talking to the superintendent they're looking for ideas and i think we're into it enough now that um they might be more receptive other than thinking of it it's just more work i did talk to the superintendent that this right after you alerted me to that you had mentioned it in that meeting i followed up with them but they were just overwhelmed like you say at the time so maybe it is a good to touch base again okay um this um um we will i guess adjourn this meeting temporarily and go to closed session is that right what's the protocol for doing that yes the protocol is exactly what you said gi we adjourn we will now adjourn this meeting go into closed session and then at the end of the closed session will actually i guess at the next meeting we'll have our report out is that correct no you report out what happened at the end of this meeting uh in terms of what happened so what you did you you close this meeting you open the closed session you close the closed session and then gi makes an announcement uh whatever is in terms of actions taken in a very general sense and then you adjourn the overall meeting okay is that right janice larry that sounds right to as i recall um how are we going to do this technically are we going to i don't think we got another link for a separate meeting um i know becca can tell if there's any attendees is there a way to lock out yes there is yeah yes they can't join the meeting unless i admit them well no no no you have to you you can actually lock the meeting just so you know we do this so if those if you go to participants go to those that little ellipsis down the lower right the three do you see that on the participant window that pops up yep you see the three dots does it save webinar yeah so i can just lock it yeah lock webinar cool and stop recording yes i'm going to stop recording as soon as you adjourn to closed session okay so um good we're in agreement we'll adjourn our regular session and uh return into a closed session okay did that correct larry yes just yeah just say no closed session was how no reportable action was taken okay we are closed we are now back in becca has to unlock it becca has to unlock it oh we are we're recording i'll unlock the meeting um just let in all those okay out there where no one's out there but we've unlocked it uh we are are back in our regular session we've completed a closed session no action was taken um on negotiations and uh with that i will entertain a motion to adjourn i move adjourn but director gudger and we have a second i'll second and tom the director manheim we have a motion and a second to adjourn all those in favor oh yeah thank you all very much um this was a long one that i think it's important background that we have as we move forward and thank you for your patience and we'll see you all in four weeks thank you thank you oh well everyone take care


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