I wasn't born into wealth or privilege. My dad from Jamaica, who came here seeking a better life. My mother from Mississippi, the daughter of a sharecropper. I never pictured myself running for Congress. I'm a husband, an activist, an organizer, and a disabled veteran. My name is Isaiah Ezekiel James. My entire life has been in the service of others. I serve my country in the streets of Iraq and in the mountains of Afghanistan. I serve my community, organizing for tenants' rights against predatory landlords. And at the end of the day, my commitment to public service is why I truly understand that we are all tied together. I've never fought for some. I fight for all. Regardless of race or religion, creed or sexual orientation, we are all Americans. The needs of one are the needs of all. What central Brooklyn needs is a representative that puts the needs of hard-working New Yorkers above the greed of the wealthy and the well-connected, someone who will truly fight for affordable housing, tuition-free college, universal health care, ending mass incarceration, and a green new deal. I'm fighting for a Brooklyn that says that no one should have to choose between buying life-saving medicines and making ends meet. An America that acknowledges workers in this country deserve a living wage of at least $15 an hour. A country that says we will no longer let fossil fuel companies dictate how we treat our environment. These things are possible now is the time. The 1% dictatorship will be defeated. For too long, we've been told that the status quo is unbreakable, that corporate money is unbeatable, that we must sit back and wait our turn. To those who say these things are impossible, watch us. I'm Isaiah James, and I approve this message. Hello, everyone. I am here with Isaiah James. He is a 2020 congressional candidate running in New York's 9th Congressional District against incumbent Yvette Clark. And he's here to talk about his progressive political campaign. Isaiah, thank you for coming on the program. Thank you so much for having me. It's really exciting to see all of these candidates running. And what I've noticed after talking to numerous candidates so far is you each kind of have your one issue that you focus on the most, which is important, because one of my issues is trying to figure out what to focus on, because there's so many things in our system that's broken. So it's nice that each person kind of brings something unique. So your big thing is housing.  You served two terms in Iraq, one in Afghanistan. You're also a community organizer, and Tenants Rights has kind of been your go-to. So let me ask you this, what made you want to run for Congress and how do you think you can affect housing rights nationally in terms of both getting things done and just the conversation, which I think needs to be included? Well, what made me want to run for Congress was part of my activism work. I'm involved in a lot of local activist groups here in Brooklyn, and I had a meeting with my current representative, Eva Clark, as a part of my work. And I was sitting across the table from Congresswoman Clark, talking to her about housing and corporate donations, rejecting them, and inviting Amazon to New York City as part of the Congressional delegation. And there was some contention back and forth, and I understood that moment that she just didn't get it. She didn't really truly understand the dynamic on the ground and in our communities every day. And I came home that night and I told my lovely wife about it, and I was very, very upset. And she said, well, you know what? Why don't you run and change it? So I was like, you know what? The next day I googled how to run for Congress and I figured it out and I threw my hat in the ring. And I love that you said that because whenever we hear about all these incumbents, it's always like they followed some type of trajectory where it was like, well, I was a mayor first and then I worked here and I got the recommendation from another local leader, but you just basically, you did what a normal person would do. And this is what I like, normal people running for Congress. If you watch Fox News and whatnot, they like to criticize progressives. They make fun of AOC for being a bartender. But I think that that gives people more credibility than being like a consultant or going through one of these Ivy League schools because we need people in Congress to represent normal people because normal people, they're the ones who are affected the most by policy. So I'm glad that you brought that up because with Yvette Clark, she's someone who doesn't necessarily have the most national name recognition and I wasn't really sure about her. She cosponsors Medicare for all, but at the same time, she does take the corporate money. So in terms of the difference between you two, what do you think you would bring as just a community organizer and just an average citizen who's not rich, you don't have the backing of corporate America in comparison with her and how that relates to your community? Absolutely. Well, the thing that I would bring first and foremost is integrity. As you said, I was a member of the military and say I was pulling guard at night on a mountain top at Afghanistan. When it's my turn to go to sleep, I have to be able to trust the person next to me that they're gonna have the integrity to do what they say and stay awake. My life is on the line. I put it in somebody else's hands. And when I get to Congress, I'll bring that integrity. It's the hard right over the easy wrong. It's not accepting that corporate money and giving those corporations a seat at the table because yes, she does raise her hand and say I'm for Medicare for all, but then she takes money from all the big pharmaceutical companies and insurance companies and then ask yourself why Medicare for all hasn't been brought to the floor for an up or down vote? Nancy Pelosi could do it tomorrow if she wanted to. Why are these companies being able to block this legislation, true meaningful progressive legislation that would affect the lives of millions of people in this country? It's because they have access to our politicians. Our politicians are bought and paid for. And this seat in particular is Shirley Chisholm's old congressional seat. And her model was unbought and unbossed. I don't know if Congresswoman Clark is bossed, but she is 100% bought and paid for. This is a D plus 37 seat. There is absolutely no chance a Republican would ever win this seat in the heart of Brooklyn. Why is it that 97% of her donations are giant corporate donations and large contributions from outside the district, from as far away as Florida and Georgia by big sugar and big gas. It's because she is bought by those corporations. That's why we have yet to move any meaningful progressive legislation forward. Her biggest accomplishment she says is helping to pass the ACA. Well, one, that was 10 years ago, almost 11 years ago. If your biggest accomplishment was helping to pass the ACA over a decade ago and you've been in office and haven't done anything since, then it's time for you to go because people's lives are literally on the line. There are people who are rationing insulin right now. There are people who are homeless, who are couch surfing, who are sleeping in the New York City shelter system because they can't afford the exorbitant rents because our housing has become a commodity that so many can't afford. Why does it take a 32 year old disabled veteran to bring these issues to the forefront when we have a sitting member of Congress who has been there for over a decade? Absolutely, and I think that this all kind of relates to something that you said in your announcement video.  Like we supposedly live in a democracy but then when you look at political science studies, the Princeton University won from Gillens and Page in particular, it shows that when you look at policy outcomes, they're dictated by elites. So they get the policy outcomes that they want when normal Americans, they don't get that. So to use that type of rhetoric, not only is it important, but it really puts in the perspective the way that our democracy functions. It doesn't operate for normal people. So I wanted to talk to you about a couple of things. The first thing is housing because you are coming with a very solid housing background, you fought for this. This is kind of your bread and butter. And of course you check all the other progressive boxes but I want people to know what policy specifics you would bring in terms of housing because this is something that I just don't think gets talked about enough and there's been a number of candidates like you who have really elevated this to a really, something that progressives are focusing on more so and I think rightfully so. So what policies do you think we could implement to actually get rent control and basically ameliorate homelessness and allow people to just be able to live? Absolutely. Well, there's a lot of things on my platform. One thing that I would bring forth is eliminating AMI which is something called Area Median Income. So basically it works like this. When housing developers build homes, they have to make them affordable for the neighborhoods and which they built them in. But what they do is they take into account, I live in a low income community, a lot of parts of it is they take into account the low income part of the community but they also factor in the more affluent parts of the community and the city as a whole which raises the rent for the homes in the community they just built. So here in Central Brooklyn you have affordable units for two bedrooms, well for $3,000 a month. And then the average median income in my district is a little over 45,000. So if 36,000 of that is just housing and everybody knows New York is a very expensive city. So eliminating AMI to where it affects people in my community and communities all across the country. Another thing we can do is have a federally funded community land trust program which says that homeowners when they sell those homes they have to keep them affordable for the next people buying those homes. So that way speculators can't come in, buy up the property, razz it, flip it, turn it into a giant development, use the AMI which is already rigged to make affordable units. And now that one home they set on that plot that was a woman's home for 50 years is now a luxury condo and every unit in there is $36,000 a year to own it. Another thing we can do is as a veteran we have something called a guaranteed VA home loan which is little to no interest and it's backed by Uncle Sam. It's not a bank. It's Uncle Sam that gives you the home loan. So if we were to do that, not just for veterans but for hardworking people in this country who are making less than $80,000 a year because one of the largest avenues to move from poor to middle class to upper class is property ownership, home ownership. And because of redlining that has gone on for decades we still have a whole entire swap of this country that does not have access to the rungs on the ladder of upward mobility. So decommodifying housing and taking it out of the commodities market and letting the government give you the loan so you can pay it back over time nobody's gonna take your house will be a huge step, a huge step in getting people into home ownership. Not only that, we need to put forth a bill which we're working on right now to protect renters rights because a lot of people in this country especially our generation aren't homeowners right now. So just because if you're 26, 27 you might be a renter for the next 10 years until you get ready to buy your home. We can't leave those people out of the protections just because they're not home owners. So we need a national universal rent control bill in this country that guarantees that housing will be affordable because now there are a lot of commodities in this country. When it comes to a T-shirt, that's okay. But when you're talking about something like housing when you're talking about education when you're talking about healthcare these are things that people need to survive. And when you take something as essential as housing or healthcare and you commodify it automatically you're saying that a certain population segment of the population will not be able to participate in it. And that is just wrong when we're talking about something that is basic for people to live. And I love that you use that term the commodification of things. It really reminds me. I don't know if you are familiar with Wendy Brown. She talks about like the commodification of every aspect of American society. Things that shouldn't be commodified like basic necessities all the way up to democracy to where now our democracy is literally commodified. So this all kind of the lowest common denominator is always money. And so it's really nice to see candidates actually bring up these structural problems and how the commodification of basically everything has devastated communities, poor communities, communities of color. So it's really nice to see you really bring this issue to the forefront and elevated because I don't think enough people are talking about it. So that's one issue. I wanted to ask you because you're a veteran and this is super important. When it comes to foreign policy what you would do differently because it seems as if the Democratic party they've shifted to the right like we can go back to you and I are the same age. So we were relatively young during the Iraq war but growing up and voting for the first time for Barack Obama saying he's gonna end the Iraq war. The Democratic party then it seemed like they were actually resisting for lack of a better term, Republicans. But now you see Chris Coons going on Fox News for example talking about how maybe we are justified in taking action militarily against Iran if they did in fact bomb the Saudi oil tanker. So what would you do as a veteran to move the party back to the left or at least a little bit further to the left when it comes to US imperialism? This is something that I take very, very seriously. So let's look at it like this. I'm not just a veteran, I'm a combat veteran. So there's a difference and veterans in the community know the difference between a veteran and a combat veteran. I was an infantryman, 11 Bravo, two Oscar, Bravo for ASI. Anybody who was a veteran would know what I'm talking about. I deployed to Iraq my first time when I was 18 years old. I spent 15 months there. We lost 35 brothers and sisters. I deployed to Iraq again 11 months later. I spent a year there. We lost seven brothers and sisters. I then deployed to Afghanistan four months after that for a year and we lost 20 brothers and sisters. I don't take this stuff lightly. Anybody, anybody who has seen the ravages and the horrors of war will be the first to tell you that diplomacy must always be our first, second, third and fourth, fifth. We have to exhaust diplomacy. War is the worst of human behavior. And I'm getting goosebumps just talking about this because I don't think I can impress upon people enough because you have people like Chris Coons and the rest of these people who've never served or who they did serve, they were in an office somewhere who do not understand what it is like to see somebody blown to pieces. I will never forget at 22 years old picking up children's body parts after an IED explosion killed 55 people in our sector. I will never forget holding my buddy's neck as the life force spurted out of him and he was screaming for his mother. Those were his last words. I will never forget these things. And anybody who is just so quick to send American men and women to war just does not understand. I am literally a veteran for peace. I know the other side of it and it's not good. Far too often the drums of war are followed by the bugles of taps and it's not going to be rich children that are going. It's going to be poor black and brown children, poor kids from rural communities as it has always been. It's the reason I joined the military because I came from an impoverished neighborhood and there was nothing for me, there was no prospects for me. So the military was my way out. Having been there and done that, I am telling you that I would never vote to send America to war unless it was the absolute last possible thing. And I know when I say last, I mean like the enemy is at the gates, not because Iran and Saudi Arabia, listen, we can solve that diplomatically. But once the first shot is fired, once the first American soldier is killed, now we've opened up a Pandora's box and we see what happened. We've been in Afghanistan for 18 years. We spent almost a decade in Iraq. It's not, America has to understand this. We spent 10 years in Vietnam of which my father is a veteran. We lost 58,000 people and what was the outcome? We have to understand. We cannot bomb our way out of situations. We cannot shoot our way out of situations. We must talk our way out of situations. And I think that your voice is so important. Like when veterans talk about like veterans for peace, specifically when they talk about these anecdotes where you're holding your buddy's neck when it's bleeding. I think that that is so important because the way that we view war is in this really abstract situation. And politicians are no different.  And then people who haven't served such as myself, we have this skewed perception of war where it's been glorified in media and television and whatnot. So to get these real world examples from people like you, it's so important in shifting the overton window because people don't realize that this is death and destruction on a mass scale. And we've been at war for how long now? I mean, 18 years in Afghanistan to where it's easy to kind of live our daily lives and not even think about it. But for you to bring that here and explain to people, this is really what's happening. It's so important. So let me ask you this because there's dozens of policies that you and I both advocate for. But realistically speaking, let's consider the best case scenario. We get a progressive president. Bernie Sanders is elected. We retake all of Congress. What do you think realistically you would be able to accomplish in the House if you have like three priorities that you would really want to focus on? What do you think that would be within the first year if you were elected? Well, let's say one thing before I answer that question. First, we can have Bernie Sanders in the presidency. I'm a Bernie supporter, everybody knows that. But the House is the most important branch. You have to send it in the House. The House is the most important because every dollar originates from the House. So until we get an actual critical mass of progressives who swear off all corporate PAC money, we're never gonna be able to move anything forward. So let me just say that. That's why I'm running. So the first thing that I would put forth is my housing bill. That is one of the most important things. And the second thing I would put forth, which is already out there, AOC, and I forget the other senators who work with AOC, brought forth the Green New Deal. We need to start enacting that right now. The Green New Deal, as Nancy Pelosi put it, like the commission on the Green New Deal, it has no subpoena power. It can't call fossil fuel executives to account. It can't hold anybody to account. So the Green New Deal needs teeth. That's one, that's two. And the third thing would be Medicare for All. And when I say Medicare for All, I don't mean Medicare for those who wanted or Medicare with a public option. I mean single payer, Medicare for All, the elimination of private insurance companies. Because again, when you commodify something is essential, is healthcare, that's wrong. My wife, lover to death, she has a pre-existing condition. My wife's a teacher, UFT member. Over the summer, she lost her job. We did not know what we were going to do. They offered her Cobra insurance for $1,400 a month. That is the same amount as our rent. And my wife, every month, she has, we have an in-home nurse that comes in and administers her treatment. Takes like four hours. She's hooked up to the IV machines and all that stuff. And my wife was literally crying.  I had to fight with the VA to get her on my insurance. But thank God, we got her on my insurance. And because of that, her pre-existing condition, the medication she needs, which is $5,000 a month by the way, it's ridiculous, it's covered now. So that little brief two week scare, for me, I literally was up at night not knowing what the hell I was going to do.  But oh, it's $200,000 and we can't afford that. That's why the third thing I would do would be Medicare for all single payer and just eliminate insurance. Nobody likes their insurance. They like their doctor. They like the benefits they receive. Nobody's like, damn, I really like my humana. I really love my Aetna. I love my Affleck. They don't, they like the doctors. So elimination of private insurance through Medicare for all is the third thing I would do. And I love that. And you know, it's kind of sad that we have to actually differentiate ourselves by saying Medicare for all single payer, eliminate private because it's become so popular that I think that the more centrist, neoliberal wing of the party, they've co-opted that term. So that's why they have to use, oh, you know, I support Medicare for America or Medicare for all who wants it because they really want you to think that they support some type of universal system because they know it's popular, but at the same time, their donors, as you said, the entire industry has been commodified. So they don't want to upset the industry because even if you don't take the corporate money from the health insurance industry, many of them do, they can still come after you and bankroll your opponent. So people are afraid. So, you know, the point of differentiating yourself now in 2019, we shouldn't have to do it, but that's not the reality. But thank you for differentiating yourself because now, like when I look up candidates, I can't just say, oh, well, they say Medicare for all. That can now mean, well, you know, access to healthcare. So- A path to access to move us toward. You don't need that, that right there, that's coded industry speak. Because I have access to a Ferrari. I would never be able to own a Ferrari. I have access to a mansion. I'm never gonna own one of those. So we need to be clear as night and day on this, elimination of private insurance, single payer healthcare for all in this country. If we can afford to spend $790 billion on defense, which my opponent just voted for, she votes for it every year, if we can afford to spend that much money shooting bombs at people and bullets at people, you're telling me we can't afford to provide healthcare? We have spent $6.5 trillion on war. Since I was a child, can you imagine where we would be in this country if we spent that on housing or education or infrastructure or healthcare or cancer research, what could we have accomplished? But we have literally shot our money out the end of a barrel and we're using it to kill other brown people across the world. I can't stand for that. I cannot stand for that. Yeah, I'm with you. And I love that you are running for Congress and you are bringing this progressive message. So anyone who's watching, I think that you've already convinced them. So we're preaching to the choir at this point, but let me give you the opportunity to make a pitch. You are not financed by corporations or special interests. This is 100% fully grassroots funded. So explain to people why it's crucial that they send even a dollar if they have it and where they can go if they wanna sign up to volunteer because that's also really important. You need a ground game and just basically give us your pitch and tell us what we can do to get involved. Okay, so to get involved, you can go to my website, Isaiahforcongress.com, I-S-I-A-H, forcongress.com. You can sign up to host the rally, to canvas, to phone bank, to knock doors. You can just sign up to literally grab a cup of coffee with me, meet me. If you're in my district, if you wanna grab a cup of coffee and sit down and talk about the issues, I would love to do that. The reason grassroots funding is so important is because like you said, we're not taking a dime of corporate pack money. And this includes because my last, my last, the guy who challenged Yvette Clark last time, he found a loophole. He said on his website, he said, I'm not taking corporate pack money, which he didn't. But all of his big donors were Wall Street financiers. All of his big donors were hedge fund managers.  So that's the loophole he found. I'm not taking money from any of those people. I already told him, if you donate it to my campaign, it's going to Black Lives Matter. So if you don't wanna send it to them, don't give it to me, because I don't want it anyway. So it's so important for everybody out there, if you can contribute a dollar, $2, doesn't matter, just this campaign means it because it's sad and unfortunate that our elections have become commodities and it's big business. So my opponent's taken thousands of dollars from these various industries. We're not taking any of that. We need that every dollar you donate is a palm card we can hand out to a voter or constituent. It's another volunteer that we can actually turn into a unionized staff member.  And it's like investing, but not a stock market. Every dollar you donate is investing and moving this country forward and dynamic progressive vision, that's what it is. And to piggyback off of that point, there's so many candidates running across the country, but the point that I always bring up is this isn't just about like New York's ninth district, because if you get in, the policy that you pass potentially will impact everyone. So my favorite example, because I have a ton of student loan debt, is Ilhan Omar's debt cancellation bill. That will affect me and I'm not in her district. So this is really a national movement. You know, you're one of many candidates running, but we need you in Congress, we need you fighting, we need you to really get in there and change the status quo, break up that 1% dictatorship and really move the Overton window to the left on a number of issues. So just please, if you can spare anything, then contribute to Isaiah James. And also, if you don't have money, then time is also a way that you can invest. You don't have to be in that district to knock on doors, even though that's absolutely a necessity. But if you're across the country, you can probably phone bank. You have a phone bank system, I'm sure, right? Yes, yes, yes. So even if you can't phone bank, just helping to amplify the message because the right likes to call us snowflakes.  A snowflake by itself hits the ground and melts. But if enough of them get together, they create a mighty avalanche and they can sweep away anything.  So just amplifying that message, getting it out there, that is what people can do that too. I love that, I'm gonna have to use that analogy. Don't steal it, I thought of that two in the morning when I was doing campaign stuff on my couch. I will credit you for that because that's so good. I like when we take right-wing terms and appropriate them because then they have to come up with something new and they're not very creative, so it's difficult for them. I like that. Well, Isaiah James running in New York's ninth congressional district. Thank you so much for coming on. We are rooting for you and we'll be watching you closely, man. Thank you, thank you for having me and thank you to all your viewers for watching this.


Half a boar! It's still half a boar! What are you doing? We out, we out, we out again, we out again, we out again, we out again. How's it going everybody? Dachodue here back with some Dragon Ball FighterZ rank matches and this time we are entering Season 3 with all new assist and all new system mechanics. That's why the team we're playing right now is based around 3 characters that I think benefit very greatly from the Season 3 patch. You got Vegeta, Blue, Frieza and Dragon Ball Z Broly. Of course Dragon Ball Z Broly's B-Assist is so good but his C-Assist might be even better. We're rocking out with the B-Assist though. Go ahead, watch it. Hey, Vegeta! Oh, he's seen it. Oh, it's also lagging a bit for him. That's a shame. Oh, nice down, heavy. And first double Sunday of the season. That's fine. We can get out of this. I'm a spark. I'm going to do a spark early because we'll see you later. We'll see you later. Why? No down, heavy. Wow. All right, Frieza. Frieza, hit him all the way. Oh, damn it. Oh, I was trying to go for the new Dragon Rush. Oh, defense. Oh, instant transmission is so fast. No, I could not hit him with a down, heavy. All right, I'm really trying for it. Damn, if I could just make him take, that's right.  Oh, don't even think you tried it. You try to, you take use of the new mechanic. Also, snap. Look at that delay. I mean, ironically, that allowed me to get in closer, but new Vegeta with his plus 42 on block. New Dragon Rush, it's so fast. We're just hitting you with so many changes right away. So much. Don't worry, I'll explain it. So the new Dragon Rush is basically like a tick throw. You can cancel out of light very quickly. Let's see if he doesn't know he didn't. But it makes defense a lot, a lot more tense, especially. Ooh, that was crazy. Let's go. Big hit from Vegeta here. That's definitely death. Hold on. No, what happened? Okay, well, I can make this come back. Let's go. Vegeta, baby. We're living in season three. Everybody's prospering in season three. There's not a single character that's not. Oh, come on. That would have been so sick. All right. How do you use a bar, though? We still have Zebroli, which is amazing to me. And Frieza's new assist is just the rocks, I believe. Not the craziest new assist, but... Oh, no, it's the ball. Wow. I must not have gotten a good look at it then. That hit. Nice. That's definitely a knockout then. Frieza, go ahead. Get this man. Let's go, Frieza. All right. Now, can we go ahead and get... Oh, he's in his... All right, so the other new mode is this comeback mechanic, a limit break, and it also stacks with sparking, so he can go ahead and use that whenever he wants to, which is terrifying. That's the new... Oh, the new chart is so good, dude. How are you going to defend against this Dragon Rush? How are you going to defend? Ooh, you can't defend. He doesn't know what to do. Oh, no, defense. Ah, so fast, so fast. That's fine. We're going to limit break as well. No, my down heavy didn't come out. Was this worth switching out? Oh, nice down heavy. We can start spamming EX moves though, especially with Broly. It's nice. Half a bar. It's only half a bar. That's a full bar still. Damn, I might have wasted that. Look at this. No, I keep dropping that. My Broly is weak. Oh, this is so close. All of these new matches have been so close. All right, hold on. We can bring it home with Frieza here. I don't think it's out of the question. It's Frieza. Calm down. Okay, we didn't even get to use any Golden Frieza there at all. But yeah, it's important to remember that EX moves only cost half a bar now. So you can really spam those out a ton if you want to. That shrunks his new beam assist. Ooh, come here. He started reflecting. Oh, so I'm going to take all of that. Let me go ahead and get you in the corner again. Maybe set you up for a little bit of Broly. New Dragon Rush, baby. You've got to look out. How are you supposed to take the new Dragon Rush? Constantly paying attention is how, man.  He's going to reflect this time. Nobody wants to get hit by these Vegeta legs anymore, dude. Nobody wants to get hit by him now that you can get Dragon Rush so quickly. I understand. I'm not saying I don't. Oh, is he even playing? Hold on. No, he's still playing. He's still playing. He tricked me. Oh, I thought I'd go over it. That was a poorly timed Super Dash one. All right. And you don't want to snap. Snapping is not as great as it used to be. Dragon Rush. Ooh, he texted. He was looking for it. But now that I know you're ready for it, it's ridiculous, dude.  Why must you do this guy? Get that out of here, Frieza. Vegeta, why did they give you that? Oh, they also gave Vegeta a ton of other things, by the way. Don't think this is it. I'm not the best Vegeta, so. Half a bar. It's still half a bar. What are you doing? It's only half a bar. Oh, I tried to do it again. Half bar?  Oh, nice Dragon Rush. How am I not going to spend it, dude? You expect me not to spend all my life savings when this shit's only half a bar? We out. We out. We out again. We out again. We out again. We out again. Season three is so much fun. Season three is so much fun, dude. I love season three. Season three is great. All right. Let's head into this. Hopefully we get a third win here. We were able to call it. But man, dude. Oh, no. Okay. We do get a rematch. How is he going to deal with the with the with the new stuff? Oh. Vegeta pressure just feels different now, dude. It's just a different. It's just a different feeling now. You got to stay on those toes. Nice guard cancel. That's a good option. Vegeta, why, dude? Why are you doing this? People are going to hate Vegeta even more now. Oh, I'm not even doing optimal stuff. Imagine a good Vegeta player. This isn't enough to kill, but you know, we're just going to keep the train rolling. He's going to guard cancel. That's that's not the option, dude. I normally I would tag out, but I think I just want to I just I think I just want to keep him in the corner here. Don't ask me why. Don't ask me why I'm doing this, but nice vanish. Nice vanish. That would that would have also been caught in by again new stuff. That doesn't count as a key blast. Vegeta, get out here. Vegeta, help me settle all my problems. Thank you, Vegeta. Appreciate you. All right. He's out. He's out. But how long can he stay out before he's back? Oh, nice 2M damage. Oh, he didn't go for the optimal corner combo, though. So the damage was minimized. Oh, I still want to keep Vegeta's assist. That's the thing. Vegeta's assist is crazy. All right. We'll take that. Let's see if we can't use Vegeta's assist here to kill. Nope. Oh, no. I shouldn't have reflected. That's my bad. No. Oh, even the armor wasn't enough. Wow. That was cheap. Did you see the armor and then landing? Coming through. So much. I'm having so much fun, dude.  I wanted to wait to actually play like the main earthling team because I played them on stream for a really, really long time.  He's just having a blast. Stop it, Frieza. Oh, that was sick. I'll give it up. Oh, I just mashed. I was just mashing, hoping to hit him. I'll give it up, though. That was pretty sick. He baited me. Speaking of baiting, though. It's only half a bar. So I'm gonna have my fun while I can have it. Oh, it's only half a bar. It's only half a bar. Oh, shoot. It's only half a bar. So much fun, dude. I was putting on with 0.5 bars. Is that a kill? No, it's not a kill. Didn't get the charge. Did charge that time, but it wasn't worth. No, he's so fast. He doesn't have a lot of health, though, so sparking is not really going to be worth it for him. The other damage boost will hit all the same. I'm out. That is so good. This exchange helps literally everybody. I feel like that's the only one I've been talking about. But there is other ones, like, well, we already, oh, here we go. The final gambit, Frieza vs. Frieza, both in last stand mode or limit break. One has popped sparking already. Oh, back off of Frieza. All right. I think that's going to do it for our first ever season three ranked match video. I know we showed off. We just looked at the system mechanic changes, not really the character changes, but these are the three characters that I think benefited a lot, especially Broly C assist, which I didn't get to show off here because I opted for the more Super Saiyan style assist. But let me know down below how you guys are enjoying your season three with your teams. Have you guys tried it out yet? Who do you think got the best assist? And who do you think got the best changes? While you're down there, though, if you like the video and are excited for Keflawik and a whole ton more of Dragon Ball Fighter's ranked match videos, definitely make sure to hit the like button and subscribe to the channel so you can stay up to date on all that stuff. Other than that, I have been Dr. Doer. Thank you so much for watching this video and I will see you in the next one.


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They say that in space No one can hear you talk to your skeleton backpack and of course turn people into skulls to trade them in for currency Hey everybody, welcome back to a We Can Geekdom Geo here and today We're doing a first impressions video on Kyu Hayashida's manga Die Dark. Her latest work Just came out published in North America, got my hands on volume one, read it and here are my first impressions Right away.  It is fantastic It is macabre Glorious and dirty to look at but oh so well drawn the story stars the character Zaha Zanko Who has great and terrible powers? They say if you possess his bones you will be granted any wish so essentially the Young man has a hit on his head throughout the galaxy as multiple people are after him for You know to claim such a wish We don't really know if that's true or not But that is what the rumor is saying across the galaxy This is a manga that takes place in space and you have characters traversing the multiple galaxies and all that stuff in really disgusting looking and in quite imaginative Spaceships as they're searching for What is essentially a pirate booty the quirky thing is that Zaha Zanko is this teen aged kid Who doesn't really let that stuff get to him and he still his upbeat self even though he's aware of the stuff That's happening. He's still going to go after several dubious characters like the beginning chapter of the story He still maintains his joyful self and that I found really awesome You don't have a lot of characters like that in a setting like this Obviously if it were a shonen jump title you would have a happy-go-lucky protagonist but on something from the twisted mind of Q. Hayashita I wouldn't have expected that but then again, I get some really weird vibes from this manga It reminds me too much of adoro hedoro. That's a good thing and on a somewhat smaller scale That's a bad thing. You see several of the characters their art and their character designs I should say kind of remind me of the characters of that other manga. There is a female Character in this who is sort of this merchant seller immediately I thought oh, it's Nikkaido from Doro hedoro so it's stuff It's moments like that where it just reminds me that I am reading a new manga But it kind of looks like the older one, but that's not something that would stop me from enjoying die-dark I think it's a well-constructed story with a really cool protagonist Something really unique is that he has this skeletal buddy called a vacuum who is We don't know yet his full backstory But essentially is this backpack looking dude who transforms into this giant skeletal creature and is able to assist Our main protagonist, but also care for him. They have a really nice relationship It's Zaha and a vacuum and you see that in the middle of the book when they go into a flashback Examining our main protagonist back story a little bit back when he was eight years of age And he wandered into this academy at the request of a vacuum So you know suit to sort of protect him there for as long as possible and over there You find out more secrets about what could possibly be his Courage and all that stuff the main appeal obviously aside from the beautiful art is just the The author's vision. It's so chaotic and wonderful to have Creative plots like this is really cool I like when a creator takes chances and creates something that is uniquely them and doesn't adhere to any sort of formula You know what I mean? I mean, where else can you get stuff like this where you have a character? Floating through space with a dark cloak a dark axe and this mask that looks really badass and creepy as he's Chopping down bad guys turning them into skeletons because he wants to buy a Spaceship and the actual spaceship the currency that is using is these bones and when he turns them in he finally gets A ship and it turns out sort of to be this anthropomorphic Thing that turns into a giant ship and he's gonna use it to traverse the Alternate Reality of the universe and it's not specifically stated at the beginning But there's this there are two versions the regular universe that people are traversing through and there's this dark universe laying underneath or something and I guess the main goal of the Duo here is to traverse that and find whomever spreading the rumors about this curse this wish granting ability that Zanko's body possesses. We don't really know yet. What's going to happen, but that's half the fun obviously they meet several other characters like Death here who I'm not going to spoil but I thought was an excellent character and really there's a lot of Humor to this story. Yes, it's gritty grotesque macabre and awesome looking But it also has that signature style and humor that Ayashita is known for if you've read Dorohedoro that silly slapstick humor and the quirky dialogue is ever so present here with of course a vacuum and The interactions between him and Zanko and of course Shimada death right here Just really awesome funny cool stuff. I can't wait as a first impression spaces I absolutely loved it and I highly recommended this is rated for older teen of course is published by the folks at seven C's It's smaller than your regular manga, which a lot of people were upset about but I kind of like this digest size It's kind of cute and the presentation overall is fantastic. They preserved all the Colored pages which is awesome. I always love seeing colored pages in manga and you have some really wicked Displays here which benefit from that. I like that it has all the illustrations and the colored chapters as well and Not on a whole lot of back matter there is a bonus chapter story as well as a crossword puzzle which I Was not expecting to see in a manga But hey, 2021 now. I've seen everything overall. Yeah, I really enjoyed die-dark. I am looking forward to volume 2 I believe volume 3 came out in Japan, but we still don't have that Solicited but nonetheless super excited about this series Interested to see where it goes. Have you read die-dark volume 1? Are you reading the series as it comes out? Let me know in the comments section down below and also let me know if you're a fan of Q Hayashida, whichever works as your favorite and if you choose Doro Hedoro What's your favorite character from Doro Hedoro? Very interested in finding out guys as always Thank you so much for liking commenting subscribing and being a part of a week in geek them It really does mean a whole lot. Thank you so much for the support. If you're new here, please consider subscribing I do content like this where I go over anime manga comics all that fun stuff. Thank you everybody God bless. Stay safe out there. I will catch all of you on our next video


All right, you're on Okay, you guys ready to go Okay Okay, all right now I can blast everybody Okay Hear me Yes, okay, that was it. That's what I have to do hold up real close. Yeah, all right I will forget halfway through so remind me So I am Denise do this and probably a lot of you know me because I've been around for a few years at red hat And I am the vice president in charge of what's called red hats platform organization Which means that I Own the teams. I own well. Yeah, I am responsible for the teams that run Red Hat Enterprise Linux and also the teams that provide support for the fedora infrastructure Which is actually a great combination so I Figured that that puts me in the best place of anybody to talk about what does red hat want I? Want to point out though right from the start that there is no one voice that says what does red hat want and this presentation is a group effort So a number of us sat down and talked about what is the message that we would very much like to communicate? To a fedora audience And we realized that a lot of you work for red hat already But a lot of you don't and you don't understand the way things work internally to red hat So we figured it would be pretty it would be good to try to explain how red hat works as well as talk about Where red hat thinks the world is going and what we would like to? Experience working with a fedora community Red hat the company is all about providing support for enterprises So you know those traditional things that we always talk about stability performance None of this is foreign to fedora right because Generally the folks who work on fedora also work on enterprise software in their day jobs and Understand what this world values, but these are the features of the qualities That red hat is motivated to make sure end up in red hat enterprise Linux right our main Our main product we live in an interesting world Our customers Insist that it has to be a floor wax and a dessert topping right Yeah, it has to be stable. Oh wait it has to be bleeding We try really hard at red hat to make sure that we're coping with all of this If you work for red hat you've probably seen this slide before because I use it a lot when I talk with people internally Because I think it describes really well What it is that we're the place that we're trying to get to stable enough. Oh But wait, we're moving really fast. Oh, but wait it can't break This is what we try to make sure that rail covers Fedora has a different set of criteria, right Fedora is all about innovation and From a red hat perspective We understand that Innovation is something that we only want to pull into the main product into rel Once it's stable enough But Fedora is where you get to have fun Fedora is where you get to try a bunch of different things Experiment with it and see what looks like the right what turns out to be the right combination so It's fast-moving My god, it's fast-moving right you guys are on a six-month cycle if I could pull that off with rail it would be a miracle Fedora also is about community, right Because one of the things about a company like red hat is we recognize that we are not in this alone We can't do this alone We live in a world where innovation is happening so quickly innovation is happening in the upstreams It's not anything that any one company is ever going to control and Anyone proprietary company that thinks like that is going to be roadkill And we don't want to be roadkill and we're not proprietary so look at that two advantages Community is what we want to work with right Community support is what we want to provide to Fedora And I hope that we're doing it as you know, we do a lot in Fedora. So Fedora for for red hat from the red hat perspective Fedora is a chance to try out a lot of different things See what resonates with people right there are lots and lots of ideas around there are probably 15 different packages for any given use case right Some of them are going to be winners some of them are not winners some of them With a little bit of assistance and maybe some patches sent upstream are going to have a much more chance to be viable What we want to do in Fedora is see how things play out Give people a chance to kick the tires help understand what the technical difficulties are and Help nudge along the ideas that look like they're going to have traction with the people who are eventually gonna Maybe oh god pay for software support Because at the end of the day, right we have to stay in business So Fedora as you guys probably know Becomes the basis for what we put together for red hat enterprise Linux And so what we do with Fedora is we watch Fedora release Fedora release Fedora release And after four five six seven releases right We will bring a release in house and we'll start building it in house And we'll try to understand, you know, what packages need to be there what packages don't need to be there Make sure we understand the dependencies do some hardening, you know work on the security for a little bit more And then we put it out as a major release for red hat enterprise Linux If you think about that, it's a really bottoms up process right There are lots and lots of upstreams it bubbles up you kind of get what you get The upstreams innovated their own pace the kernels off doing what the kernel, you know, their own thing system D's off You know, maybe moderately Listening to what we ask them to do right maybe kind of if we're lucky same with the kernel They do what they do and we try to pull it all together and make it into a cohesive hole that we can then put Dare I say it a marketing story around look, it's a distro Look we meant to do that And and and that's been a lot of the history If you think though back a couple of years to the fedora rings proposal And to some of the work that's happened to support fedora additions Some of that has been red hat the company Working with red hat a bunch of the smart people who work for us to try to think about what are the better ways That you would do if you were going to support a distro so We're trying to be a little more Plansful I hate that word, but I'm going to use it anyway Plansful about the way that we've read hat approach an operating system product So when you think about the way you put a product together, there's bottoms up and there's top down We're never going to be a top-down company, right?  Hey This is what we're going to do now go do it, right? Yeah, all of our engineers were quit first of all But but the other thing is our engineers are really smart We need to understand from the engineering teams What's going on in the world? What's going on in open source? Because that informs a lot of the decisions and that informs what's going to go into the product But what we're trying to do is to be a little more Thoughtful about the The the guidance that we give to an engineering team Engineers make lots of decisions every day They make those decisions really independently because no one is ever going to micromanage an engineer and Tell them what to do. There aren't enough management cycles in no world for that to happen And we wouldn't want to do that anyway because it's a stupid way to waste engineering intelligence So what we we red hat would like to do with our engineering teams though is give them a general idea Of where we want the product to go and kind of set up Jersey barriers, right? Here's our general direction. There are going to be lots of technical decisions that happen on the way to Destination, but I'd like us all to arrive at agreed upon destination So when you think about the way that red hat the company red hat the rel product line Operates, that's what you need to keep in mind we want to set general direction for engineering and For rel the general direction is always going to be something that starts in fedora because fedora flows into rel Red hat the company so a bunch of you don't work for red hat So I wanted to make sure that I read you our mission statement because I think it's really an interesting statement We want to be the catalyst in communities of customers contributors and partners Creating better technology the open-source way if you work for red hat You probably remember some of the memo list discussion that went into the creation of this mission statement Right. We're a very open company our employees get a vote Right, they get to be part of the discussion. I remember some of this right. No, I'm sure remember some of this We had we tried very carefully to describe Something that didn't say it's just about engineers or It's just about employees it's about being a catalyst and working with all sorts of people in order to advance open source and We want to do that to benefit our customers We want better technology for the world OMG, you know, and we do have to survive as an organization Again, if you work for red hat, you already know this, but if you work for a different kind of company We think red hat is really unusual in that we explicitly include in our code of Conduct and and ethics we explicitly include a statement that says yeah We want you to work in open source and you know what what you do when you work on open source projects Well, we'd really like it If you kept red hats best interests in mind But if you see a conflict between red hat interests and the project interests It's okay to do what's best for the project and you're not going to get in trouble for that Which is a thing. I think that really is Interesting and unusual about red hat. We expect our our people to be ethical And the way we define ethical is you do what's right for your project Employees can put project interests over company interests where necessary It's about me trying to provide guidance about where red hat wants to go But you know sometimes Guidance isn't enough or it's not appropriate. So the reason I talk about all of this is because It helps you understand red hat the company this is not We don't expose a lot of this Clearly, I don't think to fedora audiences and so over the years. There's sometimes been misunderstanding Dare I say flame wars aren't fedora develop list? Yeah, I've seen a lot of those you guys have probably seen a lot of those too, right? there's a certain amount of suspicion of Red hat as oh my god, there's evil red hat people. What are they doing? You know never a tribute Never attribute to malice what could be Explained by a competence Miscommunication are us right sometimes Even internally we are not very well aligned about what our goals are my job as Red Hat management is to try to help red hat the engineering team understand what our goals are and then take those goals and Bring them elsewhere bring them to upstream communities bring them to fedora Bring them to the places where we contribute All over all over the open-source world Another thing you should know about red hat though is that unlike many other people who call themselves open-source we truly are about the upstreams because If it is not upstream we are not going to ship it It doesn't exist if it's not in an upstream somewhere You know the reason some of these slides probably look familiar to some of the red hat people is that I Cribbed some of them Directly out of our new hire orientation Right, so when you join red hat you go through three days of new hire Orientation because we realize that a lot of people who join us from proprietary companies have no clue about how we work So I cribbed some of those slides because I want to show Everybody in fedora land What it is that we tell people who are joining red hat again This is one of the slides from new hire orientation We use it to try to explain to people who've never participated in open-source projects before What that really means and the way that red hat views it Hundreds of thousands of millions of open-source upstream projects of those projects we pick we red hat Pick the ones that we are going to participate in We try to work really hard in those communities And all of that eventually ends up in things that we have hardened and tested and support and shipped to our enterprise customers Where the red hat label on it that means a lot? It means certainly to red hat it means that we stand behind this thing But it also means that we have an awful lot of places where we have red hat people working in communities and participating openly in those communities Representing red hat, but also trying to be Genuine in in what they do in the communities because if it's not genuine It's it's not going to fly we really want to be open right as a company Red hat plus fedora fedora plus red hat Truly open. We're not trying to hide things from the fedora community. Sometimes we're disorganized Sometimes there are differences of opinion among red hat people and that gets exposed to the community You know that you guys have never seen a fedora developed flame We're in which the two sides or the three sides or the four sides are all red hat people Arguing it out on fedora developed, right? I've never seen any of those Yeah, you know we see those sometimes and I try to say um You know guys this is like maybe not so good for the community. Maybe we should try to be a little bit better aligned and not Fighting it out and airing dirty laundry so much in public, but the fact that it happens Shows you I think that we are trying to be as open as we can be There is no big secret agenda You know, we don't have these midnight meetings where we all sit and puff on cigars and say well How can we tell that to fedora? Sometimes at open and honest right sometimes we do sit and say, you know Here's what we need to do Here's what we think the product needs to do Does that work for fedora? How does that work for fedora? Is there a way we could make that work for fedora? um Because we understand that it matters You know what fedora people do really matters to red hat and a lot of the people in fedora or red hat people We all succeed Red hat succeeds when fedora succeeds, but I hope I hope everybody here understands that We genuinely want fedora to be popular We want it to be Useful for developers. We want it to be available to customers. We want it to be wildly successful We want fedora to be the development platform of choice We want fedora to be the thing that our our hardware partners pick up when they want to implement a new architecture Hey, you know, we want them to ship with fedora on as the default That's a win so again there has to be some I've talked a lot the really high level and really, you know, okay, touchy-feely kumaya So this is where we talk a little bit about where red hat wants to take the direction of The operating system, right and the things that red hat would like to see happen in fedora and if you think about it Some of these are also the places where you see red hat sponsor initiatives in fedora That are sponsored and worked on and worked on by the way by red hat people So when I think about the next generation of rail the next major release of rail the operating system the enterprise platform What I keep hearing Shibendu tell me tell me again, right the thing that customers tell you with everything that we see going on in the world, right? Core OS is It's going to be modular It's going to be a small hardened core with other pieces that layer on top of that in some sort of a way That gives us the ability to control what the interfaces look like If you went to Steve's server talk this morning Steve mentioned some of this there, right? How do you put apis on some of those interfaces? How do you make it so the layers work together and can proceed at their own speed? Because not everything is going to advance at the same speed And yet still reliably work together and by the way if you think about Testing and validation and continuous integration and continuous deployment, right? These are all ideas that kind of go together along with this so modularity Think back to the rings proposal, right? This is a theme that Folks from red hat have been supporting and working towards for quite some time now But also Remember that this is fedora. So there's no, you know, oh my god. We've got to do this, right? It's We present ideas to the community and try to sell them As here's where we think things need to go. Are you with us? Will you work with us? dependency management Right, so when I think about rail and what it means to have a small core Managing the dependencies there the build dependencies the runtime dependencies the amount of stuff that you have to ship That is something that for well the enterprise thing. I think that we need to cut down on right every package that well the product ships is a package that red hat the company has to support and If it's a build dependency, do I really want to ship it? Well, that opens up the opportunity for people to use it in lots of ways that we never tested So you see your motivation here, right? Another another place where we have in fact where red hat folks have a fedora initiative going on right now for fedora 23 is More security hardening It's hard to argue that security hardening is a bad thing. I Know it can sometimes get in the way of use ease of use, right? And we try to find a middle ground But security hardening is something that is becoming increasingly important to our customers And we think that it's important for fedora as well Just because nobody wants to be hacked Easy to update from release to release Now if I'm a rail customer I Don't know if you guys know about the way that we sell rail But what what red hat sells is not a version of rail, right? You don't buy rail six and then when you want to upgrade to rail seven you go buy rail seven That's not the way it works You buy a subscription To rail and you get to use whatever version that we're supporting that you want to use Which means that rail customers have all sorts of different versions running in their environments Because what red hat sells is the support for all these different versions But it means that our customers when they want to upgrade from one release to another release Are not doing that in a vacuum, right? It's not like one day they're going to go into their environment and throw out 10,000 rail six servers and replace them with 10,000 rail seven servers Because you know it doesn't work that way. They're going to gradually stage things in and Many of them want to upgrade what they have So it's really important when we think about what it means to Particularly to a sys admin right to go from one reversion to another version That we they don't have to retrain their fingers, right that their muscle memory still works that the commands that they used Are at least not going to destroy them when they type them in on that new major version Think dnf and young Right lots of opportunity to cause a lot of pain for some poor guy who's used to young and but you know I think that Since a lot of the folks who use fedora are sys admins We think that that's actually a goal. That's pretty reasonable for fedora, too, right? Nobody wants to have to learn a whole new command line Well, maybe some people do but there's a name for it So the other thing though to think about is a Rel major release is Usually like six or seven fedora releases, right? Because it's over a much longer time frame So when we talk about updates, it's over a longer period of time And so we try to make sure that things are compatible for longer periods of time But that but easy to update, you know, so this is another goal of ours for the next generation of rail Automated composition Tied in with automated testing So this is kind of a generic goal overall, right? See I continuous integration Leading to maybe someday Continuous deployment and what that means for an operating system at the moment is anybody's guess But but we think that in order to compete in the world. We have to have better testing available earlier and earlier in the product creation cycle And we have to be continuously testing all the way through And we have to be testing at small units to bigger units to bigger units So that by the time we get to the overall compose we know all the pieces are good and all that we're fighting our integration integration issues between modules right or between containers or You know between elements that are bigger than packages Right because the compose is not the place where you want to discover. Oh or dependency mismatch So when you think about some of the work that release engineering is looking at Well, guess what? You know, there's a common theme here right because every operating system Has the same problem So this is Work that we are trying to support in fedora and it feeds into what we do for Ralph To think a little bit about specific technical areas because you know, it's a technical crowd, right? And I don't get to hand wave completely Well, I can handle it all day long, but but I figured we you know, well, it's still evolving So product management for Ralph is out there talking with customers And they bring things back to the engineering teams and then we think about well, is there a common theme here, right? What's emerging? So what's emerging then becomes what upstreams do we need to make sure that we have people working on? What upstreams do we need to make sure we're supporting? What efforts where you know, we have finite resources, right like any other organization, so Where do we put our people? Where do we encourage our people to work upstream? so If you start to see us encouraging people to get IPv6 support through all sorts of different utilities that might not have it already Guess what? It's in support of a rail dot next theme IPv6 through stack atomic, right? So we are hearing from our customers that they want really small core. They want Rollback They want the ability that they want the the system management ability that comes with atomic So we Red Hat are investing to make sure that atomic gets good support in Fedora Python 3 Here's another effort that Red Hat folks in Fedora have been working to support, right? We would like Python 3 to be the Python that is in place by the time we get to the next major version of Ralph And we're putting our money where our mouth is and trying to work with the upstreams and get it supported, right Nick? Seamless data integration for sysadmins. There are lots of other things, right? We would love to see more roll kit support for interesting roles Some of the things that Steve was mentioning in his talk this morning a lot of that it's Work that we're trying to support So I wanted to talk a little bit about the level of support that Red Hat provides for Fedora Because I don't know if you guys have a lot of sense of How much we really do invest I went looking and There are 35 full-time Red Hat people The Fedora infrastructure team the release engineering team a bunch of folks working on QA 35 people all together now That that work full-time supporting Fedora I Took a wag at what that really meant in terms of dollars If you assume that we pay each of those people 50,000 us dollars a year Which I'll tell you right now is a low estimate, right? That's 1.75 million dollars every year in salaries alone That Red Hat pays for people to work full-time on Fedora That's not every year and that's that's not an inconsiderable investment, right? We have hundreds of engineers who package things for Fedora who work part-time We have the copper team, right? We have all sorts of people who are doing things that benefit The upstream that is Fedora and Apple and copper Maintainers QE press marketing sponsorship Ambassador money Hardware infrastructure, and I know this because because this is my hardware budget And believe me there is competition for hardware budget, right? But Fedora this year got $144,000 worth of new hardware into your infrastructure So I really I feel like we're trying to do the right thing here and the truth is Nobody's going to be surprised at this, right? We don't do this as a charity Yeah, if I told you this was that we did this out of the goodness of of ready-at-hearts You wouldn't believe me anyway, and I'd be lying through my teeth Right, and I'm not going to lie to you We do this because it benefits Red Hat the business But we also do it because it furthers Red Hat the open-source company with an open-source mission And that's a core part of our mission statement We do it because we think we believe really strongly in open source As the place that innovation comes from and as a place that drives the economy Fedora is a lot more than a beta cycle for what rel is going to become right? It's a fountain of innovation It's a fountain of ideas, and it's a place where hopefully we make the world a better place Because we want to promote open-source software development. Oh And we also want to sell rel Yeah, but fortunately it goes together So what we would like to establish with Fedora is We're working towards and we and we try to live this ourselves. We want to be Part of a community that considers the status quo a hurdle not a goal We want to be trying to get better and willing to change in order to improve things Not pretty what has changed not changed just for the heck of it But we want to be innovative here right try different things and be open to new ideas Because the distro as just a place where we throw as many packages as we possibly can That's that's dead right it's dead Jim We want to support a constantly adapting and evolving community because Fedora is never going to be done The world is always going to change and we're always going to have to change in response to it Or we go the way in the dinosaur And although you know the dinosaur barbecue is like you're really good That's not what we want for Fedora, right? We don't know I'm not in the pit We want positive constructive dialogue Hey Honest to get out of it. We're not always right believe me So We want feedback. We want people to share their ideas We want community participation and we really really really want to help the community grow because bigger communities Benefit everybody So what we plan to do with Fedora is we want to try to be better about the way that we communicate Red Hat goals and desires to everybody and this talk is a step in the right direction If I look around the room a lot of the faces here are from Red Hat Figuring they're the ones who most want to know what does Red Hat want? Tell me guys right because Red Hat even internally is not always clear with the people who work for Red Hat about what we want So everybody wants to know and we are going to try to be better Coordinated about where we're going and what we want Positive constructive dialogue. Yeah, there's that line again. We want to be clear and open about our desired technical outcomes as well As clear as we can be because we don't always know what we want technically because the technical Discussions have to happen among the technical people Right, there's got to be argument back and forth and hopefully the best idea wins That's not something that we're ever going to dictate to a community because we don't know We guarantee that we are going to be understanding when things don't go our way because you know It's a community things aren't always going to go the way Red Hat wants it to go That's life but we will put our money where our mouth is and send patches and I've tried to to show places where we're doing that already So some of the Fedora initiatives that Red Hat is Red Hat people are working on We try to try to support the things that we now need to happen So what does Red Hat want? we want to work better with Fedora to create the operating system that is going to be the winner over the next 10 years and We want that to be Fedora and well and Cento is Because it's family Yes Joe So I like hearing that you want to have communication you know one voice Any ideas on what form that is going to take how we're going to Communicate that like what's that secret midnight cabal No That's something that we're that's something that we're trying to work out. So when I I look around the room right and there are a number of fairly senior technical folks from Red Hat Who are sitting in this room who are also serious Fedora contributors? And what we're trying to do right now is discuss What are we really going to need for the next generation of rail and as we figure that out we'll be Sharing that with Fedora right and sponsoring that as Fedora future requests I will be doing more. So a lot of people who work for the platform organization No, I try to do Internal Red Hat talks about where we're going and I'm going to be trying to do those internally to Red Hat More often so that the Red Hat people have an idea of what some of the goals are and then hopefully we will we will be More united when we talk with Fedora It's almost like it's on there, right? So something like this modular one, right? What problem does it solve? I'd just like to see more of that communication, especially not a technical person But I'm not that low-down in staff. Yeah, you're right. A lot of times I communicate. That's an excellent point Yeah Yeah, yeah. Well, and you know that's that comes back to you as well Engineers make decisions every day that affect technical direction And if they don't understand the use case if they don't understand The bigger picture that we're going towards then they're not going to be able to make the right decisions So yeah doing that kind of Brendan. Yeah doing that kind of communication is You're right something that we need to get better Oh You should that that Absolutely should doubt that because we're not always clear about that because oftentimes we don't know what those use cases are product management But but that's okay because we are working towards being more clear about that Remain I was optimistically Now you get the secret to coterie Hey, I'm management I plagiarized Oops, sorry I Yeah, you think you've communicated it, but you haven't yeah better communication venues step one There's so many just that don't always do the best as far as the community goes Yeah, yeah, some groups get kind of heads down Not so much in the operating system team, but some product teams You know, I mean you guys have worked on products before you understand what it's like to have a due date, right? And it sometimes becomes hard for those guys to remember What it means to be upstream first and so we have to continually remind them And sometimes it happens a little after the fact but sometimes we have to have cooperation from the upstreams and If the upstreams aren't cooperating and you have to shut the product. What do you do so they get into this kind of quandary? Yes, I was just going to add to that. It's it's having come from one of those groups. I think a Couple years ago I think part of the problem is and I know that this is known as not a big secret It's just that you got to look at why they choose to do that people that come the red head Don't come there to work behind the scenes on close-up software Yeah, but it can very well be that trying to do stuff in the community is Harder than doing it privately and that's you know, it's an honest question on the fedora side We need to ask why we have a whole team of infrastructure We have everything that you need to do this stuff. Why are they still choosing to do it finally? But also why is it so hard sometimes, right? other questions Comments no tomatoes. Oh, right I understand where a few of those you come from because a lot of times it seems like a huge effort is being spun up But it's being spun up by almost an insular group of people who They're already they all know what their goal is but nobody else seems to know Something wrong with that generally But yeah, but it means yeah, well that kind of ties into what Langdon said That sometimes we forget that the people in the group that you're talking to are only red-headers It means I think that we need to be doing those discussions You know, that's the kind of discussion that always happens best face-to-face. Yeah, and so we don't see everybody All that often. I'm hoping that a lot of this that these discussions are going to happen at flock, right? maybe you know Flock dev comp those are the kinds of things Maybe we try to do more face-to-face or you know, we just do more Google hangouts, right? I mean, I'm gonna assume make the assumption that the board the board board knows knows what What the current goals are Right now is going to push put their their effort into as it involves If Doctors a big deal. Yeah, so we're going to do doctor Set of things down to acting the guidelines for the Doctors written and have to be developed etc. So that affects I had no idea that there was a big push because I wasn't paying attention. I didn't know No, we didn't communicate that. Yeah, so I didn't know it's all of a sudden There's this huge portion all the people working and it seemed to come out a whole cloth And I know it's a big deal, but I didn't think it was such a big deal. That's that that kind of group would spontaneously organize itself so If the council knows then the council can obviously Communicate That's a good idea. Yeah. Yeah, we do a kind of official maybe quarterly council update No We know what what red hat wants to do Who gets to be the red hat spokesperson Right Even to redheaders You Steven But, as it has grown, scaling the communications has been one of the three single hardest things. And I don't think that the problems here and in fact there are specific to let that happen to Ghidorah. These things are to be used when you do a small number of people. And there's always the risk that you turn the power to the other direction and you end up having so much information that nobody is able to get out of it faster than you do now. So, yeah, these problems are hard, there's nothing malicious if there's something else that you can do better. But, with a project this size, there are more tools in the building. And point out where we screw up, right? Well, I know you will. But do that here. So, there's one thing which I think in the community that makes for that food city that we've got is when realtors are actually leaving Red Hat and our federal contractors. So, what's happening is when realtors leave Red Hat and after our package we get an email saying that this person has left Red Hat and he's the package for these and these packages. And then we send an email to the delivery saying that this predator has left as packages and we don't know what he or she wants to do with it. And then we put you by the eye and then monsters and packages are found and someone take them or don't take them. And this is something which reflects a little bit badly in Red Hat because it gives the feeling to the community that people that are leaving Red Hat are in federal. And that gives them the answer that they were actually planning to work in federal and that they don't care about federal so when you leave Red Hat they leave federal. Hey, look two people over. The recent past is the only project that I know that I've left for that and actually prepared his departure by moving his package towards the people and working. I actually have a question but I also want to respond to that. You know, Denise mentioned earlier that Red Hat specifically said, you know, like when I came on board I came from Citrix and I was working on a factory cloud stack which kind of competes with open stuff, right? Explicitly it is allowed for me to continue working on that. That's not the case when someone leaves Red Hat and goes elsewhere. Yeah, that's a good point. There's been a lot of, you know, somebody who used Red Hat and say, let's say somebody's, you know, Amazon's who's going to get somebody to get offered. They don't have that same agreement for Amazon. Plus, you know, your day job is somewhere else. While, you know, like a lot of stuff I do on the door, I don't consider the apartment day job. But I have that latitude whereas you go to Amazon or Cisco or something like that. You may not have that latitude. I don't know about my business. I do know people who have long days. That's the majority of the factory companies have not. They do processes like that. Yeah. Well, projects you work on are intellectual property. They belong to the company where they work more. You know, at the end of the day job, the time and the stuff that they're expected to do doesn't mean much. Most of the community is actually doing these fun with their time. No. So, two suggestions then. First, Is there something wrong with working on Fedora because you're paid by writing out to do it? I mean, actually, you know, that's like okay. Some people are that way, right? And some people take it another step further. And in fact, most Red Hatters take it that step further. So, but I hear what you're saying that we shouldn't make sure that packages don't get abandoned just because someone leaves Red Hat. Okay, Joe. Yeah. One thing that I just may be a high group, but I would love to see a commitment, you know, we have reached that information overload. I can barely keep up with the some of the internal discussions about Docker and Atomic, much less all the external ones and so on. But I would love to see Red Hat invest in some, just one or two resources to summarize discussions and make them public so people can follow those things. Absolutely. Hi, Brandon. All right, hang on. One second, hang on. You guys are more than welcome to stand here as long as you want, but we're 15 minutes over already. I just want to remind everybody that there is no plan for dinner so you're on your own.


Lawer announced today that he will beck at the next round to show you force in the OVRs. I thought the lad stuck in. I thought effort was 10 out of 10. I think we couldn't have asked for more. We played at times, we went longer. I think Chelsea got rattled a bit at the end of the first half. But I think if we'd have played them before Christmas, Ie, I reckon we'd have beaten probably or we'd have got a better result than today but yeah, they were just better than us in the end. First half we grew into the game a lot, obviously when the team might have like they're going to keep the ball really well. I think we finished the first half a lot stronger than what they did and I think we did more with the ball than what they did as well. Then second half with fatigue setting it and everything like that it was difficult for us to keep the ball. Obviously it's a great experience for you and your team mates to come and play so well and give a good account of yourself as that. So are the positives taken to the next opening games? Yeah exactly, to put a performance like that against a club like Chelsea who have world class players on the fringes of the first team it's done us good and hopefully for the rest of the season we'll have to take this experience and use it in games. To lose 3-1 to Chelsea there's not many clubs better than these, these have won it seven times in the last 12 years to FA Youth Cups home. It's their competition and it's what they're good at. We can take it the fact that we put up a good performance and take it into these games with a lot of confidence in the league and then in different cup competitions try and win trophies there. Of course we can't not interview you without talking about the goal. What was going through your mind as you stepped up to take that three kick? Obviously left foot on the left side it's obviously more of an ideal to cross the ball in but there's a gap that I saw between the wall and the goalkeeper and I just thought if I get enough power on it it goes in and it does. Have you been doing that in training and at home and stuff? Yeah after training we get 10-15 minutes to work on three kicks, penalties, whatever and then it's come off again. Obviously you weren't able to perform it yourself and made some really key saves in the game. Just sort of talk us through the psychology of a goalkeeper getting down a lot to make some of the good saves he did. Yeah I think I don't really have much to do to be fair but it's just staying concentrated and making sure you're there when your team needs you because if your team switches off and a player gets through then you've got to be alert. I think the goals that we conceded maybe I could have done a bit better but that's just it's what it is but yeah then three or four decent saves it's just about staying concentrated and just yeah. Over one of the respective performance there you're looking forward to the rest of the season kicking on with the team? Yeah yeah buzzing I think we can do, we can win the league if we play like that every week and different cup competitions like I said I think we can go and win them.