Hi everyone, Joe for jashkiescasewrakes.com coming at you with Pick Your Team number three of the brand new 2024 Topps Chrome Black Baseball. Very big thanks to everybody who grinded this break out. We finally did it. Thanks to the people who bought their spots straight up on a hump day. And big thanks to everybody who worked on this serial number break here. Serial number thing, filler. So it's a serial number involving just those teams. Just for Pick Your Team three. We'll keep that aside right over here. There are going to be non numbered cards there. If they're autos, I'm going to separate those out, right? So if we have three non numbered autos for that group of teams over there, the first one will go to the first name on top after the randomizer, second will go to the second name, third one will go to the third name, so on and so forth. Non numbered base will still go to the top name along with that first auto. We'll cross that bridge when we get there. Yeah, ladies and gentlemen, our guy Joe Pizzle won $1,000 on a scratcher. And we're talking about, do you tip the person that sold you the ticket? Rex says no. Rex hates karma. Joe Pizzles was too generous. He's like $50 off a thousand. But he said that the lady that sold him to him was really nice and she even told him good luck. Yeah, maybe we'll, it's kind of late at night. Maybe we'll put up a poll tomorrow and we'll see what people think.  Rex is not a thousand, but bigger values for sure. I mean Joe Pizzle is thinking $50. Here's Darius Vines, $19.99, Prince. That's going to go to Atlanta. That'll be for Jeremy Port. I'd go, I'd go like $20 though. It's easy to pull out of an ATM, you know, and just say, hey, thanks. You know, it's good karma. If I won $100, I don't think I'd do anything at $100. There's Junior Caminero, nice start. That looks, did it? No, we pulled a different Junior Caminero. Anyway, raise. That's going to be for Robert. Might be just a short amount of time before we see him called up to the majors. How much do you win? How much could you win at Kino? At the bar, Eric. If I win $100, I'm not, probably not doing anything. On a scratcher is kind of crazy though. Ooh, thick card? Oh, what's going on here? Whoa, we did not see this in the first case. First of all, we've got a Gold Austin Wells to $50 right here, Yankees. That's going to go to Matt. And then behind Luis Matos is this rookie right here. Look at that, Jordan Lawler. Some sort of shadow box card, that is awesome. I was not expecting this at all. I feel like there's some surface issues there, but it still looks cool. What are these called? DoD? Yeah, I'm double checking. Diamondbacks are a number of block team, and that is not numbered by the way. DoD, it's called Depth of Darkness. Wow. This is a non-numbered base version. It says one out of every 61 packs. So what is, how many cases is that? 12 packs per case, right? So it's pretty short printed. There's reds to five. That's one out of every 795 boxes, and supers are one out of every 3,854. So this will go to the name on top along with any other non-numbered cards for that group of 10 teams. And so if there's another auto that I pull, that'll be to the second name down, so on and so forth. So that's about five cases, right. That's 12 times five is 60. That's pretty cool. So someone in that random number block group, it's got a chance at that depth of darkness. Then we've got Anthony Volpe, nice, 77 out of 99. That'll be for the Yankees.  All right, yeah, that was a nice box. Gelloff, Soto, and Emmett Sheehan to 150, who's on the 60-day IL, but I think he should figure into the Dodgers plans at some point this season. That'll be for, I think that was 60-day IL like a month ago, so that must be like another month away. That'll be for the Dodgers, that's William. And then your encased card is Austin Wells and other Yankees, 3 out of 25. Matt Smith, got a Blake Ruffford to 199 for Washington. That'll be for Logan. And there's City Connect, Jersey. Your encased autograph will be, will be the other New York team, Jose Reyes. New York Mets, 80 out of 99. That's going to be for Alexander and the Metropolitan's.  There's Andy Rodriguez, 10 out of 75. I feel like the lava pattern looks really cool with the background there. That's going to be for the Buccos. That's a number block team, so that's going to go to Pirates Zero. That'll be for Eric Klitz. You've got Pete Crow Armstrong, PCA. Rookie Otto for EA and the Cubbies. It's in the game. MLB has him as the number one prospect in the Cubs organization. Justin Steele needs to come back soon. There's Noel V. Marte, 3 out of 99 for the Diamondbacks or the Reds, sorry. That's going to be for Rob. And a Junior Caminero, another one. 56 out of 150 for the Tampa Bay Rays, Robert G. Halfway through the case. PED, who did PEDs? Oh, Noel V? Noel V did PEDs, right? Yeah, he's in the, that's right, I forgot about that. He's in the middle of an 80 game suspension. Did he have an excuse like, oh, it was like some prescription cough drop or some cold medicine I was taking? Or did he just fess up to it? He's like, yeah, he got me. There's Marco Luciano, 7 out of 99. Rookie card for the Giants, that'll be for William. Never heard, yeah, I don't think, I don't think I really heard anything either. That's probably a good thing. I don't want to hear the excuses. It's like, come on. We got Nick Lofton, Kansas City Royals. Royals are a random number block team. This is not numbered, so this will go to the second name down. Yeah, if it's quiet, then you got to think they're just submitting it. They're like, yep, you got me.  I was trying to get an edge and I got popped, you know? I'll just take my medicine. I'll see you in 80 games, you know? Which is fine. I mean, I'm OK with that, you know? But don't try to tell me you were getting ringworm treatment or something like that. Nice Elidella Cruz rookie card for the Reds. That's for Rob and Mookie Betts. Gold mini diamonds, 35 out of 50 for the Dodgers. That'll be for William. Carlton Fisk, 9 out of 50. Red Sox, Jonathan Kent with a Red Sox legend, a Sox legend. Just any kind of Sox. He is, Eric. Mookie Betts is hitting very well. Let's hope he saves some of that for October. It's Paul Goldschmidt, 55 out of 75, Goldie. Going to the Cardinals, that's for Matthew. Joe Pizzle, you know what surprised me the other day? Speaking of Paul Goldschmidt, you know, he started with Joe Pizzle's Diamondbacks. The dude's turning 37 in September. Isn't that kind of crazy to think about? There's Kieran Parris for the Halos. That's going to go, that's a random number block team. That's not numbered. So that'll be the third name down on the randomizer. We'll get it. Jonathan's saying that Ellie is a case hit. Nice. That Jason Dominguez looks nice too. 61 out of 199. Yeah, different design from the other rookie cards at Ellie. All right. We got Evan Carter, rookie auto for the Rangers. Adam Cowley picked up Texas straight up. That's strong. All right, two more to go. There's Gavin Williams, 109 out of 150. William with Cleveland. Now we got nice rookie auto, Heston Kirkstad. I feel like they're trying to find, you know, some room for him to get called up and play this season. Orioles, William with the O's. All right, 12th and final box. Thanks and good luck everybody. Appreciate you. Appreciate everybody working on this break today. We've got more in the store, jaspyscaserake.com. And there's Heston Kirkstad again. 50, check that, 35 out of 75. Not 55 out of 75, 35 out of 75. Another one for William. And your final encased autograph from Picker Team Three will be bam, wow, another Heston Kirkstad. Number this time, 37 out of 150. There he goes. Very nice. We'll look forward to his debut at some point this season. All right, now we gotta do some randomizing. So let's flip back to the random number block list. Let's gather everybody's names here. We'll use those different dice roll for something else. Let's use a clean list, new dice. Let's roll and randomize it. Six and a three, nine times. So top three after nine. The top name will get the Jordan Lawler and all other non numbered base cards. The second name will get the other autograph, the Nick Lofton and the third name down will get the Kieran Parris for the Angels. All right, six and a three, nine. You're welcome, Jonathan. Thanks for getting in. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, and ninth and final time. After nine, Eric Houston. You'll get that cool depth of darkness card with Jordan Lawler on it. Eugene, you'll get the Nick Lofton and Eric Klicks, you'll get the Kieran Parris. So Eric K, Eugene, and Eric Houston. Nice, which is one out of every five cases, a really short printed, really short printed card. That's really awesome. And I feel like he's a pretty good prospect too. Yeah, you're welcome. Thanks for getting in. Thanks everybody. I'm Joe for jashbeescasewrakes.com and I'll see you next time for the next one. Bye-bye.


Oh, man, it's real chilly out here, but you know, it's not going to be chilly. Oh, man, all the venues at the I Have to Do This tour shows. Yeah, I heard it's going to be a pretty great show.  Where can you get the tickets? Well, they're on sale right now. Yeah, go down the link in the description or the I Have to Do This dot show, and you can get your tickets. We're going all around the U.S. plus two stops in Canada. It's going to be pretty cool. Huh? Oh, yeah, the tickets are pretty well priced, and also if you're willing to spend a little bit more, you can get VIP tickets with exclusive merch, a nice cool pre-show that happens before the show, better seats and maybe even a glance at me. Not a meet and greet, but a different thing. I'll see you there. Nostalgic. I'm ready to be nostalgic. I was streaming the other day and I don't even remember what happened, but somebody brought up zoopals. Does anybody remember zoopals? Here, I'll refresh your memory. Anyway, someone brought up zoopals. It brought me back and I found a compilation of commercials that every 2,000 kids, every 2,000's kid knows. So we're going to watch it and we're going to remember. I guess this only applies to the U.S. Maybe I don't know how many brands we share with the rest of the world, but this is probably going to be mostly U.S. So sorry everybody else. America. Yes, I never had zoopals, but I wanted them really bad. I wanted them really bad. Even now, I still kind of want zoopals. Who wouldn't want to eat off of that plate? And there's little, there, hold on. There's little feet there. You can put your sauce there. Your ketchup if you're eating something that you need ketchup for. Ah! Function. Form. Perfection. I never had a chia pet either. I wasn't. I do remember this specific ad with the Scooby-Doo chia pet. Watch it grow. I guess. Whatever. The idea of this is like, what if we made some little statue things and we made it so you could grow a plant on it so it looks like it has hair. And they're like, yeah, it's 2002. Everyone's bored. I get, yeah, do it. Also all of these, I haven't had cable in such a long time because everything is streaming now. So I forget about commercials. Like this. I kind of miss it. In a sense, I kind of miss it. I mean, I don't because I don't miss watching commercials but it was a simpler time.  Is this, oh, is this, hold on, wait. Is this the toothbrush where it vibrates in your mouth and it's a song? Yeah, it is. I had tooth tunes and I had... Yup. Favorite artist. So we got Black Eyed Peas. We got Hillary Duff and we got Kiss. Which, how many kids in like 2002 are listening to Kiss, but okay. The thing that I love about this is that if someone released this now, you'd be like, what the fuck, it comes with one song? I'm not gonna buy that.   Remember my first iPod was the original iPod shuffle. Ugh. I kind of miss having an iPod because everything is just on my phone now and I think that that's true for most people. And I kind of miss having like the iPod Classic just filled with songs. Kinda. Little Bear. Little Bear. I remember this two days commercial. Little Bear. Everybody remember Little Bear? Huh? What about Little Bill? All of these guys have seen things. Hmm? This pillow was hidden in mommy and daddy's bedroom for three months before Christmas came around. And it saw everything. Look, PJ's fit right inside. Perfect for the overnight trips to grandma's house. This is- Totally not. That was gonna be- It's perfect when you have to go to dad's for the weekend because your parents don't love each other anymore. Hello pets are great for travel. Look, PJ's fit right inside. Perfect for the overnight trips to grandma's house. This is more than just- Head on. Apply directly to the forehead. Head on. Apply directly to the forehead. Head on. Apply directly to the forehead. Head on is available without a prescription at retailers nationwide. Sweeping the nation. It's- Weird like local summer camp. I remember. Fushigi. Something's happening and I- I'm doing it. Tim Gowee and this- Tim Gowee? We're gonna show you how to unlock the secrets of Fushigi. The magic gravity ball. No strings. No tricks. Magic. Maybe. You- It's a ball. It's a square. It's magic. Maybe a truck. Your grandmother died. And with a little practice- Is it? All you're doing is doing this with a ball in it. Get fabulous. I get it now. Everyone loves this. I get it now. It's a ball. Even control more than one Fushigi at a time. You can do this. Thanks, man. I appreciate it. I needed that. What squishy. Stretchy. And transforms almost- Flume! Flume! Flume! Flume! You can feel- Flume you- Flume it. Look. Now you can turn anything into a fabulous flume creation. Transform this wooden fossil into a fierce, Blume T-Rex. I guess. Turn this ordinary toy car into a floming fast dragster. Or change this plain dollhouse into a flume-tastic mansion.   Move sticks to almost anything. And it stains everything. Move sticks to almost anything. And it stains everything. Oh-o-o-o-o. Oh! The God of All adds! Yes! Yes! Have chef again! Yes, yes. Yes, yes, yes, follow her home! Hahaha! That's such a good ad, though. Such a good ad. Take, it couldn't have gotten there in one day, unless they lived, like, right around the corner. But it's going on the highway, so it must have had to go a long ways. How fa- If it's leaving at the same time as them, at the grocery store, unless they had to stop and do other chores, it had to be going so fast to get into the house at the same time. I wouldn't trust that. If a thing of ravioli rolled into my house and my mom was like, what do you want for dinner? I'd be like, I think...today! What is this? What? What? What are you doing? What do you feel about this ad? What is this? Is this Giordelli? Is this Swiss Miss?  It's obviously chocolate, but I don't- I don't feel comfortable. What is this, Giordelli? What is this? Don't- It's a- It was axe! You tried these new berries and cream, Starburst? Pardon me. Yes. What kind of Starburst did you just say? Yes. Berries? Yes. Berries and what else? Yes. Cream. Yes. Is in cream. Berries and cream. I remember the most. This was my, um, in middle school, that was my ringtone on my first cell phone. There you go. Here's some inside information from Betty Crocker. I slept with your husband. It's the most exciting thing you can do with the inside of a cake.  The Betty Crocker Bacon Fill! Ugh! Man, we never had one, but- What? What? The Bump-it! Bump-it! I remember bump-its. Yuck. Perfect style. Perfect style. Go from flat to fat. Bump-it! Amazing! With bump-its, you can call the cops on anybody for any reason. It's amazing! A lot of people are like, aren't you too young to invest in the markets? You know, A, don't worry about it. You know, I just look young.  B, I use E-trade, so check it. These were good ads. You just saw me buy stock. You just saw me buy stock. No big deal. I mean, you know, if I can do it, you can do it. It's so easy. They're a thousand new accounts a day. What? That's a really good ad.  Put in the ad sex. This ad is the reason why for basically my whole life, I've never called it Fanta. I've always called it Fanta. And people have always made fun of me. But listen, it's because of this ad! Ready? Wanna Fanta! So, Sarah, what's going on here? Sarah? Sarah. She won't answer you. She can't. Why not? This is the way it's been since she started smoking pot.  And now? This is what we do. So true gamers. Alright guys, alright, alright. We've been nostalgic enough, I feel. What a fun time.  Thank you guys so much for watching. Hope you enjoyed. Make sure if you're in the continental United States and or certain parts of Canada, I'm going on tour! So go to Ihavetodothis.show. You can get your tickets now. I'm so, so excited. So, thank you guys so much for watching. Hope you enjoyed. If you did, make sure to slap that like button right in the face. Now we'll see you guys in the next video. Love you all. Stay cranky. Bye.


So sometimes in classes you're asked to not just work with one variable you may have multiple variables and this is an example that you may see. So this is an equation that you probably seen before for temperature working with Fahrenheit and Celsius. In this particular one has been solved for Fahrenheit. Notice that what we're asked to do is to solve for Celsius. So our goal of course is to get the C completely by itself. Okay so first question. Is there anything I can simplify on the left? No. Is there anything I can simplify on the right? No. So we're ready now to move things and to do our solving piece. So notice that the letter that we're trying to solve for which is C is on the right hand side and notice that there are two things in the way of us having C completely by itself. We have 9 fifths and we have plus 32. You will always get rid of the addition or the subtraction piece before you ever touch anything that's being multiplied or divided. So notice that 9 fifths is being multiplied by C. I'm not going to touch the 9 fifths right now. I'm going to focus on the addition or subtraction piece which is the plus 32. So how would you move or get rid of a plus 32? The opposite of course would be to subtract 32 from both sides. Remember whatever you do to the left you have to do to the right. Now be extremely careful on this left hand side. F and negative 32 are not like terms so you can't combine them together. So you just basically write them side by side. So F minus 32. Bring down your equal sign and then on the right hand side you're still left with 9 fifths C and 32 minus 32 cancel out. The whole purpose was to remove that addition or subtraction piece first. Now still trying to solve for C which is here. Notice that the only thing bothering or in the way of us solving for C is the 9 fifths which is being multiplied by C. One option we could divide both sides by 9 fifths.  There's an easier way a little trick to do this. That's a little easier to get that C by itself. So instead of dividing both sides by 9 fifths what we can do is we can multiply both sides by what's called the reciprocal. The reciprocal of 9 fifths is just the flip of it which is 5 over 9. Remember as long as I do it to both sides it's okay. And I want to start with the right hand side first. Why that's so important to multiply by the reciprocal? Notice have a 5 in the top a 5 in the bottom they cancel. Notice have a 9 in the top a 9 in the bottom they cancel. And right off the bat you can see that you're simply left with C. So an option is to multiply by that reciprocal when you're dealing with a fraction. On the other side of course I still have 5 ninths and then in parentheses F minus 32. So if I rewrite I'm just going to change the sides flip it. So if I have C equals and it's going to be equal to 5 ninths then in parentheses F minus 32. Again a formula that you have probably seen before. The original formula was solved for F. This one has now been solved for C or Celsius. So just working with temperature. Another problem with temperature. In this particular one we're still working with the same formula we were just a minute ago. But we're wanting to convert 72 degrees Fahrenheit to Celsius. I'm going to show you two different ways to do this. The first method. So we'll call this method one. Is to use the formula that we have in front of us and simply substitute in the 72 in place of the F. So I have 72 is equal to 9 fifth C plus 32. Again my goal is to solve for Celsius. So if you remember what we did just a moment ago. We're going to do exactly the same thing. We need to get rid of the 9 fifths and the plus 32 and I'm going to always start with addition or subtraction first. So to get rid of the positive 32 we're simply going to subtract 32 from both sides. So 72 minus 32 is going to give me 40. Hang on to your equal sign. And then on the right hand side we have 9 fifth C and 32 and negative 32 of course cancel out. See if you remember the little trick from just a moment ago. So I'm trying to get rid of the 9 fifths in front of the C. I could divide both sides by 9 fifths. But an easier quicker way is to multiply both sides by the reciprocal which would be 5 ninths. So let's see what happens. On the right hand side we'll start with that first. The 5's cancel. The 9's cancel and your left would see which was what you wanted in the first place. On the left hand side notice that I could rewrite 40 as 40 over 1 and I can multiply straight across. So 5 times 40 would be 200 and in the denominator 9 times 1 would be 9. Now you could leave it like that or we could also put it in the calculator and do 200 divided by 9. So C is approximately 22.2 or 22.2 degrees Celsius is approximately the same thing as 72 degrees Fahrenheit. So that's the first method. The second method, method two, would be to go back to what we just found a few minutes ago. In the last slide we found that Celsius is equal to 5 ninths parentheses F minus 32. We solved the formula already for Celsius. Could I plug the same thing in here and get the same answer? Should be able to. So let's do that. So in place of F I'm going to substitute in the 72. So C equals 5 ninths times 72 minus 32 and as we do this I want you to notice the relationship between method one. Okay first thing based on order of operations that I would do is what's inside the parentheses first. 72 minus 32 which is 40 and notice we came up with 40 over here as well when we did 72 minus 32. And then we're back to the same spot we were in the previous problem. I can put this over one and multiply straight across. Same place we were right here 5 ninths times 40 over one which we know gave us 200 over 9 which we know is approximately 22.2 degrees Celsius. So this is solving equations.


like Fedora or other open source projects. So who are the ambassadors? So an ambassador is, we are like the voice of Fedora. We represent Fedora, we promote Fedora in different events across the world. So ambassadors are responsible so the public can know our four foundations and they have to know what Fedora is working. So we are putting people behind the name because when I say what Fedora is doing isn't Fedora who is doing all this but it's the people that are behind it, our community, outreach. So we are bringing Fedora into new and existing places for new and existing people. What else ambassadors are responsible to grow the community base? So we can have more people that can join Fedora, our community and contribute there. And also impacting future generation of users and contributors of all ages. And also advocacy, so what to do? We teach and show how Fedora improves the computing experience, sorry. And how makes our life easier. How protects our freedom. So we are Fedora. And so if you change the context a little bit there's also the program, the lesser known program of the campus ambassadors. So who are they? They mostly focus at outreach at an educational level looking at universities, high schools, primary school, a variety of different places. And campus does not necessarily equate to student. It can include professors, teachers, system administrators in school districts. It's not exclusively limited to only students. So the campus ambassadors also impact all kinds of students. Obviously computing professions are applicable. It's easy for you to point at a CS student or an IT student and be like, oh, here's how Fedora can help you. Or here's how you might be interested in Fedora. But there's also overlap with non-technical fields too. Whether it's literature, philosophy, sciences, mathematics, liberal arts, there's tons of different applications for how Fedora and open source can fit into students' lives that aren't necessarily technical. You can look at the science, like there's a science spin for Fedora that has a lot of really useful tools and open data tools for working on scientific experiments or other calculation tools. There's the design spin, there's the jam spin that all focus on things that aren't necessarily technical. So you can use it to produce music, to remix your own music, to create artwork, to create design assets. There's plenty of other ways that open source and Fedora can be used outside of only technical fields. And they also are supposed to work at all levels of teaching to bring information and resources about Fedora and open source technology into the daily discussion of students' lives. Sounds great, right? Well, it's not quite like that. Unfortunately, the program originally started in 2009, but it never really quite took off. It's a complicated history, and we want to try to revisit that now and offer some clarity to the situation about how to go forward and kind of reboot this effort. So looking back, if we see the origin story for campus ambassadors, it was really difficult for us to find some information, to gather some data of what was the, who were part of it or what have they done. Because the program does not have much of a documented past. So also it's not actively maintained today. But we have some numbers of events that they have done. It depends on different releases. But we can see why did this project started. So they wanted to improve outreach towards students that were exposed to open source project and Fedora. Also to put Fedora in hands of students today, so we can grow the platform tomorrow. Because if they are part now of the project and they continue to contribute there, there will be a long-term contributor to our project. So also bringing younger contributors to help bring new ideas to the Fedora project. So we can share our ideas. We can discuss about them. And after that, we can implement them. And what's worked and what didn't work. So as I said, we also contacted the person who founded it, Justin. But we haven't received any email from him. So it was really difficult for us to find some numbers. But we know. I have some input to that. I can say from India's specific point, back in 2009 when Campus Ambassador was getting discussed. And we suddenly got a flow of a lot of people or students who never even heard the word Fedora before. But all of them wanted to become Campus Ambassador so that they can write it in their resume. And it's still going on with the Ambassador program somewhat, but I'm just giving you an idea. So at that time, we actually asked Fransco for a special permission. So if you go to the Ambassador's joint page now, you will see for the India's part, it's written on the top that at least in India, we do not actively encourage students to become ambassadors. And that line came up because it has become difficult for us to have anything related to Fedora and the Campus Ambassador program. So that was one issue we faced in India. Just to add you, why it did not go ahead. And there are a few other projects we actually went ahead. I can actually name one of the projects, a company, Sun. And it did not go well for them. Thank you. Thank you. So if we see the numbers of events focused on students' education by Fedora this is, we can see Fedora 20, we have 11 events, Fedora 21, four, Fedora 22, two, and Fedora 23, we have only five events. Of course, it's more likely there were more events because for six months, we can't have only two events, for example. But it was really difficult to find a record of their events, that's why we need to show off what we do, we need to do blog posts, post it to our mailing list, and so we can find more information. And the numbers that we saw were searched from the event page on the weekly that we have, and also past recorded events that they've done. Could you give an example of what events this encompasses? Events held at different universities, showing them how they can be part of it, what will they do, how is the process, the structure of it. And one common form I see. Yeah, acupuncture one form. Anything that's specifically targeted towards like a student audience. So the hackathon is probably the easiest thing you can think of, or what that kind of event would be. Do you have some kind of like, a picture of the success of certain people coming at them, like how many are sticking around? We'll definitely get to that. So now, before we start looking into suggestions and ideas, let's kind of get like a set rep of what we're looking at right now. So the program exists, but there's no clear way about how it fits into the greater picture of overall ambassadors or really how even a student can go from being an ambassador to a campus ambassador. Because until just recently, it was a requirement that in order to be a campus ambassador, you first had to be a sponsored member as a regular ambassador. Until recently that was just changed, but even now it's still unclear about how to make that transition or what that even means. Like what's the difference really? So it needs more direction and focus. It needs some more energy behind it. So kind of the event strategy that's happening now, which really is more applicable to ambassadors rather than campus ambassadors. Conferences work well for bringing in a large variety of people, including students. And there's a great talk that just happened by Bee this morning about all kinds of crazy awesome numbers about looking at these kinds of things with the tools that we already have in our infrastructure like DataGrepper and other things I'll get to in a minute. It's also showing and teaching students what kind of things they can build with Fedora and how open source is a popular draw for them. So when we go to a hackathon, it's a matter of showing like a lot of times students are like, I want to build this thing. I want to do this. I want to make it happen. And you're like, well, here's these things that Fedora doesn't even have to be necessarily Fedora, but like here's this tech that happens to be available in our distribution. And here's how you could use this to make your idea come to life and become a reality. It also is exposing different places of Fedora and open source and how it's a draw. It's not all programming seriously. Like I mentioned earlier, there's the design lab, the jam lab, there's the science lab. There's tons of different things that aren't exclusively computing. And one last thing is it's also in some places it's really a popular idea to have the user freedom and empowering the student or the user about what they can do with their distribution, what they can do with their system. It's not a company being like, here's your environment and here's what you're locked into. Because that's what, as far as at least in the United States, that's kind of a little bit of the culture behind some of the teaching today. So it's like, sometimes it's a new idea for like someone to think like, oh wow, I can change everything. I can change the entire experience and create an entirely new thing. Whereas before I'd be stuck with what I'm given. And so there are a variety of really cool tools and utilities that we have right now that are really great for targeting students or local events that we put together like hackathons. Badges are absolutely incredible because they're a great way to first gauge impact at an event.  But at the end of the day, you're like, I don't know what's happening to them. I don't know what's going on. But you have a number about, if they have a FAS account they can scan a QR code, go to a link and they instantly claim a bag that's added to their FAS account and you also have an indicator. You have what their FAS username is. So it's easy to gauge, like, oh, here's this person and you can take a number to see, like we engage with this many people that either took the time to make a FAS account and get the badge or they already had a FAS account. And maybe they're like, oh yeah, I signed up for one a long time ago and I think I still have it. I'll get the badge and they're still engaging with Fedora in that way. And it's also incredibly useful at saying previous and future involvement with the badges, like checking in, a report that was done on FOSDOM 14 and FOSDOM 15 by B also was looking at, like it was a month before a month after about contributor activity. If they had an account before FOSDOM, you were looking at what their activity levels were at and how they were engaging with the project and then you looked at it a month after the event. And in most cases you had an increased number or an increased amount of participation and interest following FOSDOM for the event. And before, until the three years ago when badges really took off, it would have been very difficult to be able to find a way to get that information. And that's all made possible by DataGrepper. So there's something behind DataGrepper. FedMessage is one of the messages buses that anytime we do anything in Fedora and all the notifications in the bots and the IRC channels that fire off, there's a mailing list post or a commit. FedMessage is the fire hose that's submitting all of that constantly. And DataGrepper is kind of like the nozzle to the hose. It lets you have a little bit more control to tune in on the specific amount of data, whether it's like IRC meeting, commits, packaging, bodied, you name it, it's more than likely on FedMessage and more things are getting on it too, like Zanada for translations is a recent one I know of and I don't know if Bugzilla's, I know it's done and if it's not implemented yet, it's very close to being implemented, which is something that previously and we never had access to in the FedMessage bus. And it's a very useful tool for understanding the way our contributors are interacting and engaging with the project. So looking ahead, what about the future? Our four main areas that we're going to look at now are onboarding, mentorship, not just students and visibility. So onboarding, if we look at onboarding, we need to have clear steps for students and faculty members, how they can get involved. So how can they be a part of the project? We need to have like the really clear one, so which is the first tab, the second one, like we have different teams, for example, you have to introduce yourself at the mailing list or you have to find a mentor for the process. So they need to be really clear and also bringing people in and connecting them. So if you are a new person joining the project, if, for example, I find also two other ones and also the others find two others, it will be like a chain and we will have a more bigger community. So also we should be really careful so the newcomers feel welcome and they feel confident at our community. So connecting the dots to make people feel involved and part of our community. Also providing them resources and interjections, they need, physical meetings are the perfect one, so meeting space, it's powerful because it's better when you discuss with someone face-to-face and talk with them. It's better than talking online on IRC. Also addressing mentorships and how to greet new students towards being Fedora advocates without creating hurdles. So we should use the word mentors or mentorship. Sometimes for the students, for example, if we say mentor, it's like you say teachers and we know the students don't like too much teachers. So it's kind of, we can choose also another word, it's up to us. So the process needs to be really simple. So we need not be a process really hard, so you need to have really lots of knowledges or lots of technical staffs. But if you know the basic things, you know how our community works, something like this, you can be part of it. And so the process would be simpler and easy for people to be there so they can be motivated to be part of the project. So mentorship. We have, so empowering current ambassadors, campus ambassadors that we have and students, so they can mentor each other. Because if you are new and after some time, you will know how the project works, how things are there. So after that, you will be able to teach those things to another one. That's why it would be way better than having mentors, for example, from our ambassadors' program that we have. And it would be way better to teach each other every time we have newcomers. So the standard training helps a right path for interesting participants that want to get involved. And so after they are trained, they can train also others if they have the right resources and guidance are available. So teaching to teach the others. Also we have, so similar to other programs, lightening qualifications on mentorship policy will be important for you to flourish. So perhaps we have mentorship and not mentor, as we said. Also we can find another thing. It's up to us. So also removing the title, the status or the title as the mentor and looking at mentorship as the mentor. And we need to have more people to bring it's our project. As I said, if you bring to others and the others we bring also other people would be way better for us. And so one of the other key things that can be addressed to is it's not just students for campus ambassadors. There's plenty of other people who are actively involved in the education scene that aren't just enrolled in courses or are students. There's instructors, there's professors, there's teachers, system administrators, there's other faculty members of numerous different educational facilities. Students aren't the only players here. And one of my favorite examples is actually another ambassador in North America and also an author for the Fedora Magazine, Charles Prophet. He is a system administrator in a local school district in Western New York. And one of the things that he's always been pushing for as a system admin is to use different free and open source tools behind the school's local infrastructure. I know there's a few that he was looking at for monitoring tools and he's slowly kind of breaking it in and spreading it out to other system administrators in the region. And it's a slow chain reaction. And one of his biggest challenges is trying to convince like the administrators about free and open source software. And the example he cited to me was there was a time where he was talking about trying to use like this new open source tool when his manager was like we will never use open source software the entire time that I am in this position. Exactly. So while he was holding back his last despite the fact that there were already open source software running everywhere. That's one of the challenges that you have to face in that position is lack of understanding or sometimes even not willing to understand. You have active resistance. So having resources and guidelines for the people in those situations who are like I'm stuck.  Like I don't know what to do. I feel powerless. Like what control do I have? And there's other people in those situations that have experience like Charles for example who have done this and be like oh yeah this is how I broke it in slowly and surely I got this thing in and it led to another thing and I started teaching other people about open source software and our infrastructure and it started spreading. So things like one of the probably the easiest examples I could think of would be like creating a Fedora computer lab which could also be a faculty oriented guide but it could also be a student one too if a student wanted to be proactive and kind of igniting that effort. Maybe if it's for teachers specifically if it's teaching with open source and Fedora. Like I said all the other different things that's not just technical. You have the design, you have the games, the music. I mean there's tons of different spins that aren't exclusively related to technology and that teachers could use these to educate their students. And get them also exposed to open source tech and even Fedora. The other two examples kind of like the ones with Charles or would be like using open source and Fedora in your infrastructure or breaking down proprietary walls in your school. How do you do that? Like if you think about it you're like wow that's a huge thing, how am I gonna do that? But when you have something that's like you know here's advice, here's a step by step kind of walk through about how I get it in my region and when you have a community of support with other people who have done it it makes it a lot easier for you to be understanding how you can proceed with this in your own region. And it's like kind of like with bringing in two students it's like a chain of reaction. If you can start something and sure. One important question to ask is what is the end goal? There are two very different end goals that I see there. One would be of course being increasing Fedora's presence in school and computer labs versus an end goal that could specifically mean that means to an end of getting more students and more students who become involved with the Fedora project and those probably have different needs in order to drive that into those. So which one or both is the attempt to address and how are you focusing effort? For me like I see that as a matter of well it depends on the person. So like if you have a student then it's quite a little bit more oriented towards exposing other students to Fedora to open source but if it's like a fact. I mean from a strategic perspective for the ambassadors where should they be focusing their efforts? I mean are we going to throw funding and resources at every idea or are we going to say we really want to push on these ideas? I think that's kind of a question that's kind of already happening at least from what I've seen in FAMDA are the ambassadors of North America. I think there's starting to be some discussion because like a lot of like the traditional Linux events the ones that we've been going to for years and that were well known presence there. It's usually the same like not all the time but it's like a lot of times it's the same people that we're seeing at every conference or every event and or we're not having the impact that we think we might have. And there's another thing especially with like data grepper and badges we have access to this kind of forgetting to a point where we have easier access to this kind of metrics and evaluation about our impact. And the one thing that really kind of motivated me for this was in March we had BRICCAC at the Rochester Institute of Technology. And I remember that entire weekend like I was comparing versus like you know I read and studied up on a few other events happening before then and even years in the past about how they were doing with interaction and engagement and I don't know the kind of like energy that I kind of was picking up on at BRICCAC like I remember we had about 30 people scan our badge which was about attendance is roughly 260 people which was about one somewhere but it was like a it was a low percent it was under 5% but then you look at events like FOSDEM with that badge it has thousands of attendees and you had like 70 people scan the badge and it's even even smaller percentage. And so it's kind of it's not really quite apples to apples but I feel like the event that we had at BRICCAC while it wasn't as like broad amounts of people we were kind of zoning in to a specific amount of like a smaller subset of the population. And I feel like the impact we were having like the interest that was generated and even some of the contributions that happened later on with interest and introductions on mailing lists and people wanting to get involved just coming up to the Fedora table at BRICCAC. To me that was kind of the idea that maybe there's this beginning of a trend that where we're focusing and it's maybe this is a part of a bigger discussion than just this one but it may be considering where we're addressing our resources to and measuring the impact we're having. Right, well I'm not sure any of that actually answered the question I was asking which was what is the end goal you're trying to hit and I mean it sounds like you're kind of circling around the idea that the end goal is increasing contributing contributors. I think then but just put it simple I think it's just increasing the number of people exposed and using Fedora and then on this. But again exposure to usage of Fedora is interesting but not as valuable as exposure in such a way that is providing a path to contribution which has a net positive effect on the core. Right. If I can, I think that's what we've been doing for the last 10 years and we've got I think a really good contributor base on the other hand it was always like the end goal was to have the contributors and we got into the situation that we've got contributors that you know build something that I wouldn't say no one is using but you know compared to like for example Ubuntu there is a huge disproportion. So for me right now we should definitely go after the awareness. I mean we shouldn't be less focused on you know getting contributors but what we like right now is the awareness users and stuff like that. That demands reason to reason basis. Like yes this is true that most of the students they know about Ubuntu or like not even Ubuntu in this case for their laptop opening system in this case desktop but when it comes about actually using that opening system to do something which is useful for their courses that's where the contribution comes from because after doing first aid they can become contributors to some project may not be federal but something which is inside the federal lab that some project or some desktop application. So like and again I'm speaking only from the India's point of view how we went up the number of people having FAS account and then a huge drop 2009 effort from a lot of Indian contributors and then making sure that we did awareness parties anyway happening like at least in India I can say or apathism but our main target is and it was also that to get more contributors because that's where we are lacking not the awareness part. So I think it's much more depending on the area or the region where you are talking about. No what do you say is correct but I believe it's much more about region. And the last part we were looking at was also visibility. So this can extend to current as well as moving forward creating possibly different guidelines but establishing a commons for the campus ambassadors will be important even if I know there's a few other examples of people using other platforms but mailing lists and IRC have their role for log participation in meetings and keeping the project open but perhaps there's other things we can do to improve the contributor experience and a lot of that is things we've already seen. We have mailman with a mailman three with Hyperkitty which is bringing in an entirely new front end to the mailing lists and one of my favorites is Fedora Hubs which will revolutionize the contributor experience but I really am really excited about Fedora Hubs. It's an incredible project that's bringing in all kinds of different places and bringing in these different things and these different factors of the contributor experience and tying them into a single place and I'm really excited for that because I think it's going to bring in a new kind of maybe a new kind of contributor different kinds of contributions but it's going to make it I think Fedora a more accessible project I think things like Fedora Hubs like this is the right direction for me to improve our own visibility and our own outreach for students and at the end of the day however it's done the work that's happening needs to be seen and easily referenced. Reports are important of course and documenting success is absolutely important so that way you can replicate it in other places and you can see, learn by example. The current method right now is not the most efficient and there's other platforms are there other platforms for communication that we could be using? Outside of just venture reports even on like a blog or are there better tools? Could we utilize social media better in ways for this to engage with a younger audience to bring more people in? What other ideas could we bring to the table for this? And we kind of intentionally left this a little bit more open-ended at the end to kind of see some other people's thoughts in the audience are but for that, if you want to get involved with any of this or throw out some of your own ideas there's the IRC channel Fedora Campus AMB and there's also our mailing list, Campus Ambassadors and a quick special shout out to Ardian Haxa for helping us prepare this talk. He's trying to make it a flock but it didn't work out for him but special thanks to Ardian for helping us and I was wanting to kind of see if anyone else in the audience had ideas especially going forward with the bringing in new kinds of contributors like on the kind of topic of like Fedora Hubs and so just because I didn't quite get the closure I wanted on that what I was looking for was really you talked about how well, we'll target some students here and we'll target assessment administrators here in fact, we'll be here what I was hoping to hear was that the specific goal of doing those things was to eventually convert students into participants at least and contributors at best I think it's kind of the subset of the general outreach though like I mean with, sorry but we have limited resources and I don't just mean money or material but time and people and so making sure that whatever you're doing has the most impact is important and I'd be a little concerned if we spend a lot of time producing material on how to build a computer lab that gets used twice versus I think there's a lot more to be said about material to teach a teacher to teach open source I think that has, I would have a huge return on that to use business terms but keeping in mind the end goal is always really important in making those decisions so a lot of the slides you talked about things that we need so like materials for onboarding people who are interested in becoming camps and masters steps to have people who are involved in campuses not necessarily just students or other like the one, two, three process those kind of thing is there any of that existing or is that still yet to be accomplished? Are any of those materials at least in draft format somewhere such that people can start iterating on them or contributing to them or is it still just like starting ground zero? I think it's quite a start from ground zero because we do have like the existing steps for becoming an ambassador there's a series of wiki pages you followed through but they're not exactly a they're not saying to speed through it but it's not something you can look at and be like okay here's the things I need to do you have six different wiki pages that have a long large amount of content so there is content there but it's nothing that's easily it's something that's not like to the point and succinct where somebody can get an idea here's the steps I need to follow here's what I need to do but specifically to the campus I don't want to like the ambassador to jump I think that's a very fulfilling specifically to this campus outreach there's currently no materials there's nothing that we can easily find there's the wiki page that exists for it and I have tried to I attempted a rewrite of it with some more clear guidelines it kind of stagnated a little bit with there was going to be a fad last month in Raleigh for looking specifically at education I think with the causes departure it kind of mixed things up a little bit but I think that's something that's still on the table because that was one that I know Spott was going he had some wanted to collaborate on for that and I think it's something that's in the interest of the project to kind of look at that again and so was the goal of that fad and or this session to kind of kick off those types of discussions to get this going? Yes, and I think having also a Fedora community leave would also contribute to helping that happen with like the rebooting the fad idea too but it's as far as like current resources go it's mostly just the same the same wiki page we've had since more or less 2009 so for specific content it might be out there but from when I was trying to dig through and find it I couldn't find anything incredibly useful We need to go down Outside the campus ambassador term or Fedora wiki page like we from India like we run a regular annual IRC based training where the idea is to move people from normal users to contributors and it's 90 year running so we have material ready mostly with logs and questions open questions from students and stuff which actually help us to produce almost all of the like except a few people almost everyone else from India and nearby region actually went through that training so we have two things ready can be used Instead of trying for example for Fedora to be a little bit more focused for some things for example Fedora to go for all developers focus on Fedora from Python and Fedora you thought as well for university outreach thinking out of there is a little bit more to focus on reach you can say that it's all university which includes so many different things perhaps start with a little focus group to help So one of the targets for the Fed one of the things like the beginning steps to do this was we wanted to identify at least two ambassador or two student ambassadors from every region in the world to have at least a minimum of six or it was either six or 12 but to have a minimum of like this number of people who are bought in to be like the first era of campus ambassadors these were the resources they wanted to develop at the FAD and to get created and then with these resources we trained the first kind of era of and from my understanding of what the plans were it was kind of mirroring a little bit from programs like I guess kind of like Mozilla's student ambassador program in a way where it's a little bit less I guess like comparing the two like between like Fedora's campus ambassadors as is and like Mozilla's program is it's a little bit like I think of like Mozilla's program as a little bit more like stepping like stepping like stairs and you're slowly doing more and more over time whereas there's kind of like I think a high like a high barrier for you to kind of really get going and involved with campus ambassadors and so I think that was kind of the original plan was to start small and to target at least like find two and two or three students from every region of the world and work with them on a very personal level to help train them up and provide them with specific resources and target their specific needs and then go forward from that and start working on training more with the two or three ambassadors from each region and going forward from there so I think that's kind of the direction that they wanted to go in in the beginning We are very keen on getting everybody to be a hacker but people don't really know what cool things they can do with Fedora and people don't know that Fedora is this operating system for the robotics world competition or something like that so saying these things to them and marketing those ideas they could be a part of making Fedora more widespread I think you can talk about what you can do with Fedora and what Fedora does for you Is there anything to go of Fedora and Affiliate? What was the... No, you could sign up and be on the list of companies, organizations that are Affiliate in Fedora and then you can state like we are using Fedora for this and this purpose and we carried it with the help of Fedora I think there was some... The Affiliate's discussion, yeah or Friends of Fedora Yeah, that's an ongoing discussion in marketing right now or kind of stabbing it a little bit but definitely Okay, so now I might sound a little bad what I will say now so I'm sorry before but since I have heard about ambassadors, campus, staff I was always interested I'm very active on our university I teach there, I was a student until recently and I'm an ambassador but I have zero clue what shall I do as a campus ambassador or whatever my activities show me and it's an IT university so creating a Fedora lab is nonsense it doesn't make any sense for those guys to have a Fedora lab because everybody has their own computer and stuff and I signed up for something somewhere on the wiki now there is a mailing list and I don't even know about it and I thought this talk will give me some insight about what shall I do but I still have zero knowledge as there is something when you say we, do you and the third person or is it like a larger group is there any activity happening I can join to be in the picture or is it still like walking in the dark and we just want something but we don't really want what's the target as we've seen for it feels so like a nice idea but nothing to touch sorry for being hurt No, that's perfectly fine so I think that is really like the key question about the action items what to go from here and I think that this is definitely something that was kind of on the verge of happening and until a few weeks or really a few weeks ago I was really looking forward to that fad happening and I was hoping to really have resources available so I think right now the current thing would be to have bring those plans back and I think having a Fedora community would be one thing that would help with that doesn't have to necessarily be the fix all solution but I really would like to bring this make this fad a reality again and bring it back on the discussion table because I think having the in-person collaboration and focusing on like creating the beginning resources or discussing how to go about that and making a final or making something deliverable to people like regular ambassadors who are interested in this and they want to participate having those resources is a huge thing because that's what's going to really start making this happen and that. How do we do that? How do we do what? Sorry. How do we, so there was a fad that was supposed to happen and then Remy left how do we make that happen again like it was supposed to and give you one ball? Was there budget for that fad? It was going to be a local one to Raleigh, no budget. Let's do it. Bring it up to the council. I think that's the next step. The goal of it is local, no budget needed. We need somebody on the ground in. So I think I could probably go and take an action to bring that back on to the council ticket too and help bring some direction to that. That would be great. Sorry, I wasn't paying attention earlier. Seems like it was a delay. Yeah. Yes. Looking back at what Stephen said earlier, I wanted to point out that it's really important to see if this is going to work out. I mean, it would be pointless to reach out to the investors to set up the labs and then no one is going to use them. So I believe that the Focal Team is going to play a very important role in this. I mean, we need teachers, we need professors who will be very motivated, very passionate about this, that can cooperate with us with the DER community to make this happen. And if we manage to do that, okay, first of all, we need to focus on specific universities. We should not just get Kamusavastos everywhere and try to reach out to random universities. We need to focus on specific universities where we have contacts with the Focal Team and we need to make sure that they can help us. And if we succeed in doing that, not only the students will start using Fedora in their labs, but students is a very important target group and we're probably going to get lots of time as contributors. And that was one thing that we did create a few months ago. Maybe one or two as we had a kind of like a roll call for people interested in doing that. I know a few of you in the room who have asked questions have you added your names to that list too on the university involvement initiative page. And so we kind of have a query of the people who are interested to help drive this forward too. So it's information we have available. I think we had at least, with the exception of a couple, I think one or two regions, I guess, well, it probably could use better communication is really what it comes down to. But we do have at least a few people across a few different regions who are actively interested in paying attention to this or who are ready to be provided with resources and guidance to how they can proceed with going forward with this. Sylvia? I have a question. Because I assume many universities in my country in the world, but as in Washington, and as in Thailand and Brazil, that when you talk to the professor or the teachers, they say, no, no, but forget about links, forget about, forget about, because it's not used in professional arguments. You want to learn something useful. You need to learn something that works and that you will use in your future job. Is that the way in universities in the U.S. that the teacher, like a couple of times, happened to me that someone said, oh, yes, that's very nice, works very well, but not now because you won't use this in your work. You need to learn these other videos or whatever, because this is the useful thing because where you're going to be asked this in the house, that happens in the U.S., in the U.S., actually. When you see that. I have a little bit of an answer to that at least, which is I have worked at universities in the U.S., so I've seen a little bit of that, but I guess most U.S. universities are more focused on theoretical, so it doesn't matter so much which thing it is unless I'll make hands-on thing like that, but even on that hands-on, a pretty good response is that Fedora is the upstream of Reddit and Reslinux, which is the number one Linux for serious jobs that you can get, and if you have Fedora knowledge that will translate very well to knowledge in a job in the future, and if you're looking for a job in the future after you're done with your education, starting on Fedora will put you in a great and good place to be right timing the new technology when that comes through the downstream filters, so that's an answer to what you can tell people back, but I don't know how to solution for. No, no, and then ask really for a solution, it was more like that was the dynamic university in the U.S., or if it was different, because that... I think it is different because of the different focus on hands-on skill versus abstract things that are in places where they're still teaching on Shure64 Units or whatever that they happen to have, and it's all the same, it's Unix, so are they teaching out of a book, it doesn't matter what computer you're using. We're down to the last three minutes, so we can have time for maybe two more questions. What are those? One question that I have, and maybe this is covered by my own experiences with academia, do we have an answer to the question of why should a professor care whether or not their students are using open source? Why should they bother putting forth this effort? I heard the question of how do we find these people, but I have had conversations with academics before where the question basically comes down to what's in it for them. Do we have an answer to that? I think right now, at least in the immediate sense, that would probably be a good thing to address in the beginning, I think it would probably start with people who like the professors who already have that intrinsic interest, like some of the people who are here right now, people who are in the teaching field, starting with people who have that intrinsic interest to teach it and to spread it. I think that would be where we probably have to start with. I don't know if I have a good answer for that, as far as where to go beyond that, but I think that would be something that would be a very good thing to bring into discussion too, so we don't have to depend on people who happen to like open source in Fedora and are also a professor, is going beyond that too, like if it's a student going to a professor, trying to convince the professor or the faculty member that this is important for, oh yeah, this would be a good thing to bring in and to use. I know my university is very much a window shop. If you want to do something that's not windows, you will have an up mountain battle, so. And I don't, I think that, I don't know if we're the exception or the rule or either, right, but those places do exist where the problem isn't going to be with faculty members, it's convincing them to start fighting that battle with my team. Right. There's this program called Posse, the professor's open source software experience, and I just Googled around for it and it looks like it kind of puttered out a couple of years ago, but I was involved with it at RIT and it looks like it happened at a bunch of other universities and it was an awesome boot camp where we sat down and I had two professors next to me and by the end of the day, we had two patches submitted upstream and it seemed like a really valuable program, but the old PC was the vehicle for the teaching at the time and I don't know if we have something like that that we can just bring to a bunch of professors So, it actually died down with the breaking down of community architecture team from Red Hat, but one of those persons was Haris Midlai, he's from Red Hat in Singapore and he's actually speaking about the same process stuff I know in a pack in a few universities because we receive emails that he's trying to get a few of the office subscribers to go to the colleges and do the similar process stuff to continue the same thing. It was a very good example of how to reach the teachers and I have two more inputs for you in general but I want to say that after you turn off the video recording. Is it possible to give students involved by writing thesis? Because that's very, very popular in Pernault and we have a number of universities around the Red Hat office and they have a lot of activities like they have two weeks when students can come and meet Red Haters There are a lot of Red Hat people who work for Fedora so wouldn't they work with the students and keep them some tasks and so we could count whether they're going to be able to write new thesis for Fedora I think that's not entirely possible It was obviously something I hadn't considered but seeing as there's already kind of like a beginning interest there or there's something to kind of go off of to begin with I definitely think that's something that's probably worth considering at the get-go or having a focus on for like graduate students and beyond We are out of time for this session I don't know if anyone else there's nothing else after this so I'd be okay with sticking around I think there are lots of things to discuss Yeah, that's all right Thank you Thank you If you just turn off the video


Dear graduates, students, friends, family, honoured guests and colleagues, good afternoon. It's my pleasure to welcome you to the graduation ceremony of the Sanitation Master's Programme. I now give the floor to our rector, Professor Eddie Morse. Thank you very much, Annik, and I would like to welcome all of you here. First of all, those who travelled from far away, because I think that's always a bit of a challenge, and also those that are joining us online. But I think the most important guests, of course, are the students here. I do hope, and I do expect that you all have the same expectation, that is that you will get your diploma today. But before you get that, there is still a last hurdle to bypass, and that hurdle is the people sitting up front here a little bit. I've been working quite hard, I think, in the last one and a half year. I think you have experienced, say, the remainder or the last part of Covid a little bit. I'm very, very happy that you also experienced the majority of your time here without the restrictions that Covid had here. So I do hope that that time will not come back as it has been. I don't think it's completely done yet, but I do think that we have learned a little bit better how to live with the situation like that is. Now, for me a reflection to Covid is, I think, especially of interest to your specific topics and what you're doing and how you're contributing. Because I not necessarily think that Covid is so important, but I do think that health and sanitation is a very, very strong link to one another. And by that, I think that we really need you. And so I'm quite happy that you are able actually to step away after today from this learning process. And I hope to see you practicing what you have learned. Because in the end, that's what's all about. Sometimes it can take longer. Maybe some of you will follow with an PhD thesis. But in the end, all of you, at least that's my hope, will contribute to what we need in the water sector and especially also in the sanitation sector. So I think that this year is a special year. I think soon in November we have World Toilet Day as one of the events. But then later on in March we have the UN Water Conference taking place, first time in 40 years. And I think in that conference, sanitation for all is one of the important topics that will be addressed there. So I hope that they are looking for commitments in there. And I hope that you all will be part of those commitments and that you will help us together to see how we can bring sanitation to the next step. How to do that is something I need to learn from you because I'm not an expert there. And I hope that I can see you working in the field, any place in the world, and to see what you are doing there. And maybe also to see how we can collaborate together with the IG, but also with your future employers or your institutions or your family or your community, where you're employing actually what you have been learning there. So with that I would like to thank Anik and also open the floor to Damir to say a few more words to you. He showed me his speech, so please grab yourself because he's going to tell you a lot. Damir, please take the floor. Four pages only. So dear graduates of the fourth cohort of the Master of Science Program in Sanitation, academic class 2021-2022. Dear guests here in the auditorium of IG Delft and guests who are with us online. Dear professors, mentors and other staff, welcome to this graduation ceremony. On behalf of the academic staff of IG Delft, supporting staff involved in the program and all our guest lecturers, I'm expressing our appreciation of this ceremony on occasion. I'm delighted to witness and take part in this very important and special day for all of us. This is a day that you will never forget. It is special for you because finally your 12 months academic adventure comes to the end. I have no doubt that for most of you it was 12 months of hardship, 12 months of facing the challenges of being in the new country, getting used to its habits, meeting unfamiliar people, eating strange food, drinking water from the tap, experiencing the effect of climate change. Some of you have seen the snow or ice for the first time, being away from home and the loved ones, etc., etc. It was not easy on you. This period was also challenging, as Eddie said, because of the COVID-19 pandemic, which was and is still around. But we are happy that we could interact with you in person and teach face to face during this period of your study. We were also happy for seeing you doing your research work. Most of your outside of the Netherlands did your work, co-supervised by our partners in Africa and Asia. These kind of things we took for granted before, but apparently we do not do it anymore. That's why we are all grateful that after two years of emergency teaching, we could return to more or less normal situation with your cohort. I'm also sure that you are at least a little bit aware of the magnitude to which your stay in the Netherlands affected and in particular will affect your life. Exposure to the modern educational and research facilities of IGDELT, embedded in truly international setting, is rather unique experience, whose positive effect and memories will be with you for a long time. Besides elevating your knowledge and skills in the field of sanitation, you expanded both your professional and personal networks, you made new friendships, learned about the countries and habits of your fellow participants, and without doubt became in general even better persons. While we also recognize several positive changes on you during this period, we are genuinely curious about what will be your impact on your professional environment and the impact of you and your employer on the society and beneficiaries of your work. As you may know, we are interested to hear about your successes and we have a possibility to provide symbolic seed funding for you to start up some of your projects, but you have to be fast and do it within one year after this graduation. Today I'm looking at you, the finest mid-career sanitation professionals that your countries can offer, the champions in developing and implementing sanitation, as we define you and I'm very proud of you. Take a look at your fellows. Can you see the difference between how they, how you looked back in October last year and how glorious and feel you feel and look today? What's the difference? A few more minutes to go and you will turn from students into alumni of IG Delft, joining the family of 23,000 fellows for more than 160 countries. But you will also become alumni of the Global Sanitation Graduate School and will join alumni from 42 universities and 20 countries who followed pretty much the same curriculum as you did. Today you will become one of the 58 graduates of the MSC Sanitation Program at IG Delft. As we speak, around 600 fellows studied the same sanitation curriculum at universities in Africa, Asia and Latin America as part of the GSGS. So welcome to our alumni community. You have no doubt fulfilled all the academic requirements to get awarded the MSC degree from IG Delft. Some even did it with distinction. It's a secret yet. However, your mission is not finished. You may think that you are off the hook today, but actually you are not. In fact, your mission is just about to start. Now when we know you quite well and you know us maybe even better, it is the moment to think how we can stay in touch, benefit from the momentum created right here in Delft and extend the outreach of education through you, the future ambassadors of IG Delft and GSGS, champions in developing and implementing sanitation. This is the fourth and final edition of the MSC Sanitation Program that we proudly started in 2018 with invaluable support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. We are grateful to all our staff, our partners and guest lecturers who supported this program from the start. Also to other supporters like the Dutch government through the OKP program, Rotary International Scholarship, World Bank Scholarship Program, National Waters Research Corporation from Uganda and several other donors. The good news is that this program is embedded through MSC program in Water and Sustainable Development under the Track Water and Health Profile Sanitation and we are also proud to share today that 28 students in the primary edition of this program which will start on the second November have selected the Sanitation Profile for their study. This clearly confirms the continued interest for quality education in sanitation which is one of the main objectives of the UN SDGs. Furthermore, I do not want to take more of your valuable time today as the chain of festivities is in front of us and I will finish my address by sharing with you our appreciation for the unusually high level of academic output that you created during your MSC studies here in Delft. I wish you all the best in the future and hope that you are really enjoying every moment of the day. Thank you. Thank you, Damir. You can have a seat because we are going to watch a video. We continue with a video message from Dr. Roshan Shesta, Deputy Director at Bill Melinda Gates Foundation. Hello, friends. Big congratulations on your achievement. Finally, you made it. I am so proud of you. Obtaining a degree is a massive milestone in our lives. It is also time to set up a new target to achieve another milestone.  We have achieved so far only 58% of the target and we have only eight years to go. We need to accelerate the speed which is not possible only by money. We need experienced professionals like you who need to engage in the public sector, private sector and development agencies to support the country to accelerate the progress and sanitation. I have met many IHG graduates from Africa, Asia who finished this course. I am so proud to see all those graduates effectively serving in the sector knowledge and skill gained from IHG. I am sure you will also have such opportunities. The course itself is crafted in such a way that you can address and fit in any issue those are related to sanitation. I hope you have completed citywide inclusive sanitation, courses and non-ceo sanitation program. Similarly, you must have also gone through the studies on technological innovation and different service models. These are some of the hot topics and new in the sector attribute practice on the ground. We at the Bill and Melange Foundation last year have supported the demonstration of citywide inclusive sanitation in several countries in Asia and Africa. We are working on transformative sanitation technologies that kill pathogens and recover resources. Those technologies will be available in the market very soon. You should learn all these. Your role will be critical to scaling those innovations in the coming days. We will reach out to you as per need. You are now a member of Global Sanitation Graduate School Alliance. You are not alone. Once you are back home, please get in touch with your authority, development partners and show your strengths. Find a forum where you can discuss and present your skill. Make aware the stakeholders that you are back. This is the way opportunity will follow you. Please be in touch with us, share your thoughts and ideas on how we should act and contribute to the sector. Finally, I thank all the colleagues from ICDEL for the support that you have provided to all participants. I wish all the best for your next journey and safe travel back home. Thank you. We now continue with the part you've all been waiting for, the actual awarding of the diplomas. I would like to invite on stage Professor Rudjanovic and Dr. Claire Furlough. To be honest. We start with Dennis Agea from Uganda. Mr. Isaac Akoit from Uganda. Ms. Morena Aydit Akorut from Uganda with distinction. Mr. Julius Anavaite from Uganda. Ms. Folake Monsurat Babalola from Nigeria. Mr. Rashid Kakar from India. Mr. Sena Tesfai Kalbesa from Ethiopia. Mr. William Mutalen Konde from Zambia. Mr. Dennis Antony Ooyok from Uganda. Mr. Musad J. Sanjang from Gambia. Huswayo Tembo from Zambia with distinction. Thank you. Claire, you can take a seat. And Damir, you continue with the next item. Right. So this is our small secret. Every year since I think this is now seventh year of tradition that we with the support of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation decide to award the best sanitation thesis award. And for that we make a little jury who judged in this year as it was also last year. It's Claire and I'd like to invite Claire and Konstantina to the stage as a member of the jury. So let's first say what is the award about? The award is for the student, graduate, who gets this funding to support stay of the student if necessary at IG for a couple of months as a part of our special program and also to attend a conference of her or his choice in the coming year where the student would or graduate would present the results of their research work in terms of paper or presentation. So this year we had quite outstanding gear as you could see that we have two distinctions, but we had even more excellent thesis which satisfy the criteria. And we had in a short list the four of you selected and then in the last round we came to top two and then it took us probably almost an hour of arguments and we decided not to fight because we have to stay here and to live together. So we decided that the two thesis which came to the top we could not decide which one is better than the other and we decided to give the award to both of them. And now our graduates they don't know who are they they may guess, but their name is written here so I would like to invite these two graduates to share the award. Please come here behind and accept it. Accept the award. Super. Enjoy it and thanks for the protocol to accept that because this is the first time we do that. This is as I said the last formal edition of this program and there are a number of people here in the audience and also who are not here with us who really contributed to this program and made it very special and made it possible. We started from scratch we designed the program in this particular room five, six years ago accredited for six years and delivered for four years now now we are part of the new program and we are happy to be that. So since this program is closing I would like to invite let's say a key people that we work together all these years to make this possible. I would like to invite people to the stage all together and I made a little present made by myself and my wife which is a logo of the Global Sanitation Graduate School which is supporting this program and I would like to award this little personal present to all staff I would like to invite first the module coordinators Emanuele, Tina where? Shirish Francisco should come come to the stage Acorsua probably not here Tina is not here so forget, sorry if I forget but I would like also to invite the staff from the program committee two important people, a key people Mahrez Vakpayin professor and professor Jul Palia please come also to the stage other members of the program committee please come Carol Bianca you were all the time there do I see anybody from planning okay Carolin so these are Carolin Sinti class in the camelis you did from the lab he graduated last year from the same program so I have for for you here they are all handmade and then different so if you don't like the color or something you can swap two professors will not get it they will get something else from me so first I would like to share it with you I have here for all of you I give a brown to Tina so you can change beautiful blue Claire must also get the brown Claire was the person who was really supporting this program very heavily for all these years and Claire was coordinator of the program and Claire thank you very much she was research coordinator and then since Tina came to institute two years ago she took it over and I would like to give to Tina as research coordinator also vice-vector don't get anything beautiful one for you and thank you for supporting us all the way you didn't get anything so two professors which were really support to us and support to me and shared loads of supervising a large number of students but also providing us with guidance especially with experience from Teodelf but also from Arcade and her appointment also in Amsterdam so what we created we created the category of awards of global sanitation graduate school and we called them ambassadors so the first ambassador was Brian then Daniela and some other stuff from there but also Jose from South America and ambassadors are people who really contributed to this program and promote sanitation in any of the ways that's why we called them ambassadors and these are awards that we created from the base material and are designed by two female artists from Bosnia and each is unique wood which is used here is waste food from different countries the metal here is scrap metal from the water supply pipe which is also a base material and then there is a little a little plate here with the name and the picture of the first graduation cohort of this program so I selected probably nice colors for you thank you very much for everything thank you ok ok sorry for this one can we invite the students at the end to join us come I need the best pieces of work ah yes of course yes thank you Damir we now continue with a nice surprise video from some people you might recognize good morning, good afternoon and good evening and welcome to all successful graduates of the IHE sanitation course my name is Christoph Lütti from AirVoc in Switzerland if you will remember I taught the first module in November last year on sanitation systems I'd like to congratulate all of you and wish you the best in implementing more sustainable sanitation systems in your countries and hope that you progress well in your future careers bye bye all the best hi everyone congratulations on your graduation today this is Louise Madeleine we did research method seminars together it's always a great privilege to work with everyone explore loads of different methods and I hope you had a chance to put them into practice in your field work many many congratulations and good luck with your future bye hello I hope you remember this topic and maybe you also remember me I definitely remember you because you were a fantastic group and I usually enjoyed the one day workshop we had on the topic of sanitation safety planning now with this video I want to congratulate you for your master's degree that's major achievement be proud of you and wishing you all the very best for whatever projects and initiatives you will be working on in the future bye bye hello everybody excellent to see that you're all graduating and completing your courses I taught you project management in April May it was really exciting to see you all because I inspired with your expertise especially validation, leadership and friendliness so wish you all the success and enjoy the day bye congratulations with your master's your MSc it's well deserved my name is Felitim Bost based in Netherlands although currently I'm in India and I had the privilege of lecturing you on two topics one is PPB's and the other one is sustainability and sanitation enjoy your day and wish you my credits of working thank you yes dear students you succeeded congratulations with your master you must be so happy that you're finished now looking forward to hear wherever you are you're going to use all the knowledge and skills and expertise of this year whatever in the world I hope our paths will cross somewhere in the humanitarian emergency response it would be lovely to have some of you there to be able to use all your skills also in this particular humanitarian emergency response setting it was a pity that we met only three days online but the four days we were able to see each other live so it was very nice to see each other face and have one day together all the best and hope our paths will cross again and enjoy that you're a master now hi students this is Melissa Hepner from Portland State University I led the leadership and science module just wanted to say congratulations and good luck in the future hello students in case you've forgotten to slum drainage I believe that you're all about to graduate my congratulations on achieving this particularly in such a difficult time I realised it was really awful trying to work online and I really regret that I wasn't there to help you as you approach your way to the project but well done for making it anyway and all of the best as you go out into the world and change it for the better congratulations hi ladies and gentlemen Sheila I taught you academic writing back in December and January which seems a long time ago now I'd like to congratulate you all on your outstanding achievement in obtaining your master in sanitation degree you've all worked really hard and you really deserve it good luck with your careers and don't forget to see her at IHG have a safe journey home nice video wasn't it dear graduates congratulations to you all also from my side this almost concludes our program for today I hope you've enjoyed it and I would like to take this opportunity to thank everybody for making this afternoon possible I hope you've enjoyed your study experience and that you will stay in contact with our institute as an alumnus furthermore I need to stress that the diploma is a unique issue handle it with care in case of loss it cannot be issued new copies so we strongly advise you to make photo copies in a scan of your diploma and supplement for safe keeping after the closing of the ceremony I would like to ask all the graduates to calmly follow the cortege outside and gather in front of the building so that we can do again some group pictures thank you and I'll see you later outside now I give the floor to our rector Professor Eddie Morris so congratulations I think and I think that with this there's a new start I think it's also time for celebrations but before we do that I think there's also a little bit of a serious note related to that and because with the diploma that you received you are entitled to call yourself a master in science I do hope and I expect that you will also become an ambassador of sanitations but there are also some traditions in the sense that you have to follow also the rules and also the commitments that we expect from you being academic so I would like to welcome you both in the academic world but I would also like to very much welcome you as alumni of IC Delft that me already mentioned that that you are a family maybe even more than one world also for the Sanitation Graduation School so very welcome here what I think is lacking here is maybe one thing that I think we haven't given something to somebody here in the room that I think also deserves something so I don't have a present there but I think you hold a present and I think it's not a physical present I think it's a symbolic present and I think if you agree with me I would like to call on all the graduates of today to give this present to Damir because I think he deserves this present so I would like to do that maybe by an applause but I think in the content of this applause I would like to call on you to become an ambassador of Sanitation and give that present to Damir so I don't know if you want to join me in an applause but I would appreciate that so I think Damir I think you are an example also for the academic world on how to energize people how to make people motivated both students but also staff I would like to thank you for all the efforts that you already did but also what I expect from you in the coming years because I know that you always have plans so I think that that will be there and I hope that with that it's also a nice start of an evening I would like to invite you all like Anik already said to take a picture outside but also after that to have a drink downstairs in the restaurant so that we can congratulate you personally as well with that I would like to close this meeting and give the floor back to Anik