Thank you all so, so much for making BangBangCon 2018 such a rousing success. Another round of applause for all of our speakers, please. Thank you so much. I hope you all had at least as much fun as I did. And thank you again to the App Nexus folks for hosting us. Thank you again to Confreaks. Thank you again to Mirabai. And also, here is Julia Evans to thank our sponsors. That applause would better be for our sponsors. Okay, I want to talk about a really interesting topic, which is how we fund this conference and what that's about. So there are a lot of things that we spend money on at BangBangCon. For example, speakers need to come here and not all of them can afford to easily, right? From like, far. And so we pay for speakers' travel. This year we started paying honorariums for our speakers to recognize some of the hard work that they do a little bit, even though I don't think we could do that enough, like it's not possible. And we get to do all these cool things, like we get to have open captioning and we get to record the videos and we get to have food. And this is all of this is sort of like in conflict with this other thing we do, which is we try to make BangBangCon radically affordable, right? Like we could be like, oh, this conference is super popular and therefore we will just charge like $10 trillion for tickets, but we don't want to do that, right? That's like not what BangBangCon is about. So we want to make it sliding scale, pay what you want, which we do, which is great. So like one thing I want to talk about is like sort of the emotional experience of being a conference organizer and running a conference. And so the way it works is you're like, OK, we're going to have a conference everyone and you open the CFP and they're like, OK, it's happening. And they're like, great, time to pay for it. Like how are we going to actually have money so that we can actually have a conference, right? And of course, the way this works is we have amazing sponsors who are here and something that was very exciting that happened this year. So the first year we were like, what is the sponsor? How do we do it? And then people helped us and it was amazing. We had to go out and ask a lot of people, right?  I have a lot of appreciation for those people. But an amazing thing that happened this year is actually like we were like, hey, we need sponsors this year. And then people came to us and like they emailed me and they were like, Julia, I would like to sponsor Bang Bang Con. And I was like, oh, perfect. Wonderful. Thank you. And we didn't need to do as much outreach. I think actually everyone just came to us, which was fantastic. And so I want to call out some of these people. One other cool thing that's been happening is we have repeat sponsors. For example, today, this year, Bang Bang Con is at AppSense. This is last year at AppSense. So they've supported us for two years. Managed by Q and Comcast have also supported us for two years, which is amazing. The RecurR Center and Stripe have sponsored Bang Bang Con every year since the beginning, which is wonderful. And we have new sponsors, right? Who just started sponsoring us this year, who we love just as much. 3M is a phenomenal sponsor who's new this year. And we have Twilio, I mean, the Azure Developer Advocates team and Merrill and Adobe Typekit. And it's like, it's like outrageous. People will just be like, oh, can I sponsor too? And I'm like, yeah, please. And it's really cool because for every one of these sponsors, it's like a pretty significant chunk of our overall budget, right? Which I think is really great. So yeah, thank you to all the sponsors. And one thing that I think is cool is like, I think that a lot of sponsors say to us is they're like, oh, we want to build inclusive companies and we want to make the world better. We want to show that we care about that.  Like, I would also like to build a more inclusive tech industry. Maybe we can all do that together. And okay, the last exciting thing that happened, there are a lot of exciting things, I'm sorry. The last exciting thing that happened is this year, we ended up with a little bit of extra money. Like we now are not operating on like a zero. Like we were on the conference and then our bank end is at zero. And having extra money allows us to do really cool things which we're gonna announce later. We hope, like April mentioned yesterday, that Bang Bang Khan is a reminder of why you became a developer in the first place or got into software or hardware or whatever it is that you do that you enjoy. And there's a lot of joy and excitement and surprise in computing. And we hope like every year that you leave this venue inspired, engaged and fired up about making the world a better place through the work that you do. I want to share a quick story with you which is tradition here which is the origin story of Bang Bang Khan. So, sorry, the font is a little small. I hope everyone can read on the things but I'll read it out also. So, Recurse Center which is a wonderful program like a writer's workshop for programmers here in New York City who is like affiliated or has been or knows Recurse Center. Yeah, a lot of you. It's totally okay if you don't, that's fine. But now you do. So, every year they hold what's called Never Graduate Week or Alumni Week where everybody gets back together if possible and codes together or whatever. And so, Maggie who used to be an organizer, organizer emeritus of Bang Bang Khan was asking, hey, is everyone coming for Alumni Week? And Alex who if you'll remember from the Pokemon talk, I was like, yeah, hopefully. And Ian said, yeah, well, my boss said if I can find a conference in New York that week that's at least semi-work related, they'll pay for my flight. Anyway, that would save me a bunch of cash and some PTO also. So, yeah, all right, well, I might be able to afford it maybe but hopefully there's like an excuse to expense it. And Alex says, make up a nice conf website, pretend you're going, then go. It's foolproof. I wanna remind you, this is in 2013, Bang Bang Khan, this is before all of this. Julia Evans says, you could organize a real conference by May if you wanted to have no time probably. And Alex says, I'll even do it for you so you don't get fired. And so, Alex suggests the first draft title which is Julia Evans blog posts, Khan. I don't know if you've read Julia Evans's blog post but you should.  And so Ian's like, yeah, spending a week there should be work related enough. I don't really need a conference, like it's cool. But Julia says, submit a talk and requirements are it must contain at least three exclamation marks in the title. Maybe we'll call it exclamation mark Khan or exclamation mark, exclamation mark, exclamation mark Khan, which is kind of a mouthful.  And then Julia says, well, I would actually go to that. All right, Ian, I got your back. Bang bang bang Khan just needs a website. Ian's like, bang bang Khan is a little easier to pronounce. All right, cool. Well bangbangcon.com is available and Alex is like, all right, great, let's get it. Now we need space, we need a chair, we need everything, whatever. And Julia Evans writes the first call for proposal, CFP, it's a programming conference about what excites us, blah blah blah. The only requirement is that your talk is programming related and has an exclamation mark in the title, which is still pretty much our requirements. The one thing that we have changed is that at the time we encourage what we called upwardly style submissions. You won't believe this one weird GCC bug. All right, no, but we're not actually doing this. This isn't actually happening. No, of course not. Julia says, I'm not even allowed to organize conferences right now. All right, so Alex is just ignoring all of that and charging ahead and says, well bangbangcon is easier to say, so I'm gonna register the website. All right, cool, are we gonna have tracks at this conference and it's like, ah, maybe. And so Alex is like, all right, well I'm about to register it, speak now. One year, three years, five years? This is five years. I was actually, I was going through these slides and I looked at this slide and I said, oh no, are we about to run out of our domain name registration? I gotta go check. Fortunately it's on auto renew now, so now we have to have a conference forever, I guess. All right, Alex says, I am now the proud owner of bangbangcon.com, Julia Evans amaze, wow. Alex says, wait, Leo says awesome. Alex says, did I just register bangbangcorn.com with an R by mistake? Yes he did. I love this, Alan says, don't worry, it's just a pivot. We do actually own bangbangcorn.com. And the funny story is, so we had to make an LLC so that we could do finance things and we were like, oh man, what's the name for our LLC gonna be? Well of course, bangbangcorn, LLC. And so I enjoy the fact that these corporations have to write a check to bangbangcorn, LLC every year. And Nick, a facilitator at Hacker School, says Hacker School will host it, which used to be the name of Recurs Center. Ian's like, yeah, now I get to go to New York City for free. And Alex is like, great, we're doing this. And that was 2014's bangbangcon. So bangbangcon obviously exceeded expectations of which there were zero. And we have thought a lot about how we scale bangbangcon. Like how do we make bangbangcon accessible? How do we make bangbangcon meet the demand for that people want? Bangbangcon, obviously. I actually, I wanna invite the founders of Starcon up here for just a moment to talk about that. Because I think this is a wonderful example of how we want to scale bangbangcon, what we call horizontally, which is that we're gonna inspire other people to start events just like bangbangcon.  Hi everyone. There's a lot of people from up here. So my name's Arsia, this is Anna. This is Evie. And we're from Waterloo, which is in Canada. So last year around February, we attended a conference called HelloCon, which was held in Toronto. And Josh, who is somewhere in this room, there he is. So Josh helped organize it and we attended it. And it was basically like bangbangcon, but Canadian. And make of that like what you will, but it happened and it was amazing. And I think halfway through the conference, I turned to the two of them and I'm like, let's do this in Waterloo. We can totally do this. And I think that evening over like past though, we were like, we're gonna do this. It's gonna be just like bangbangcon because we attended bangbangcon a few months later and there were so many exciting experiences and projects and stories that we heard from people.  These have to exist in places besides New York and America. And we go to Waterloo, which is like known for computer science. And we were like, this has to exist. There have to be people who have things that they wanna stay and share with people who maybe can't come to New York or can't travel or can't afford to or don't get in. Because there's like what, 30 slots here to speak and how many applications does bangbangcon get? Hundreds, hundreds, right, 300. So last year, no, this year. Oh my God, it was this year. It was in January, okay. So this year in January, we held StarkOn for the first time. And it was really great. I wanna let Anna talk about the meaning behind StarkOn and like why we called it that. Because it was actually her idea. We don't have like a screenshot for that because it was like an IRL meeting. But yeah. Actually coming up with the name for this conference is like the first thing on my resume. I'm really proud of it. So again, we were really inspired by bangbangcon and kind of going off of the whole like, you know, the exclamation point. It means not in a lot of languages. Oh, can people hear me? I lost my train of thought. We're kind of going off that regex theme. I just started like brainstorming and putting out like all I could remember from like second year computer science like the random regex course we had and we came up with StarkOn. So the asterisk has a couple of different meanings. The first one meaning that everyone is welcome. It's the wild card symbol. It matches everything. It matches you. And the other part of it being that we also wanted to like bangbangcon, make it technical but make it broadly technical. So we don't just want to hear about sis calls, fedora. You're really kind of esoteric tech stuff but also culture and ways that speakers are impacting tech and everyone's impacting tech. And I guess the last part of it is it's a light bulb which is kind of cute and fun. Lightning talks? Lightning talks. That was the other pun, yeah. Yeah, that's kind of our story in a nutshell. Yeah, so I just want to pitch in and say that organizing a conference is definitely harder than we thought that rainy night in Toronto over pasta. We really thought we had free time. But we got over 100 applications and it was like our first run and we were expecting like 30 applications for 20 slots because we didn't know how far the reach of this would be. So if any of you are kind of thinking we could do a conference in Insert Your City, you probably can if you have the right resources, if you have enough people who care about this. And I encourage you to like take that idea and like run with it. Don't take too much, just do it. It'll happen, it'll be great. And next year you'll be here talking about your con. So, yeah. Are we gonna get it again? Oh yeah! Yeah! Sponsor us, or apply to speak clear. Thank you all. I want to echo that sentiment. If you are interested in starting your own conference, Bang Bang Con and its organizers are here as resources for you. We're happy to share the wisdom we've picked up over the last five years. We're happy to connect you with our network of other people who have been inspired. And actually, Star Con was our inspiration for paying our speakers this year. So it's great when we can give into the community and then the community is able to inspire us as well. But we have an exciting announcement to make. Over the past five years, Bang Bang Con has been a success thanks to you, our attendees, our speakers, our sponsors. And it's been such a success that the demand for what we're doing is much greater than we are able to meet. Anyone who has submitted a talk proposal to Bang Bang Con probably knows that we get way more strong talk proposals than we have room to accept. And anyone who's tried to buy a ticket knows that we have way more potential attendees than we have room for. That's a great problem to have, but it also means that we constantly have to disappoint people. And there's only so much that our small team of volunteers can really do. So in the long term, the solution for the inability to meet this demand is for there to be a lot more conferences inspired. And a new generation of organizers really to step up. And so, if anything, the demand for Bang Bang Con has only increased as more people experience the magic and fun of this conference format. This year, we got a record-breaking number of proposals, nearly 300, which is about as many people are in this room. And so, it's clear that we need to expand. We need to better reach people who aren't just in New York. And that includes some of the organizing team. So, first, we are expanding Bang Bang Con to the West Coast. So we will be holding our first West Coast Conference, Bang Bang Con West, in Santa Cruz, California in early 2019. Don't worry, Star Con, we won't conflict with your date. Venue will be the campus of UC Santa Cruz, which is where Lindsay, our co-organizer, is starting a new job as professor this fall. Congratulations to her. And UC Santa Cruz is providing seed funding to launch that conference, but we are still looking for more sponsors. So if you wanna help out, please get in touch. The other thing is that we're actively recruiting new organizers to help out putting on Bang Bang Con West. First, we want to make a great conference, but second, we wanna incubate a new generation of conference organizers. So by the time we're done, every organizing member of the Bang Bang Con West team will have the skills and experience to go out and launch their own conference if they want to. We don't just wanna ask people, we already know how to organize this, but we wanna find people we, oh, sorry. We don't want to just ask people we know to organize this, we wanna find people we don't know. So for the first time, we're asking people to apply to join the organizing team. And if that sounds like something that you want to do, go to bangbangcon.com slash west to learn more. That is the last slide. Thank you all so very much for coming to Bang Bang Con 2018. I hope you had a wonderful time. I hope you leave here inspired and make the world a better place through the work that you do. Thank you so much and have a good night.


people! I'm Ginny Metherill and I'm a fourth generation witch. I have received so many comments on my previous video which was about November witchcraft concerning the great American beast of Thanksgiving and I'm reading through these comments it became immediately obvious that the only thing I can do with them is to make them into this video on a pagan Thanksgiving. I'm a Brit and I know pretty much nothing about Thanksgiving so I've had to do quite a lot research on to this video and the bare bones of it as I'm sure you're all aware but I'm not going to teach you to suck eggs I'm just going to say that in the 1600s the Pilgrim Fathers came over and settled with the help of the Wampanoag tribe and if I've pronounced that name correctly reduced a successful first harvest and had a great feast to celebrate it. This tradition then has carried on and was formally recognised as a national feast day in America by Abraham Lincoln and has been celebrated pretty much ever since. That as far as I'm aware is the bare bones of it but let's take a little bit of a deeper dive because basically Thanksgiving is where a group of people come together in their family units generally and have a celebratory feast together. The elements around this gathering together and having large feasts really echo and have great correlations with British paganism and the harvest home. The Pilgrim Fathers when they left these British shores for America would have taken their daily customs with them and the biggest biggest event in the whole of the agricultural year is the harvest and a safe and plentiful harvest was longed and hoped for. It was a huge deal and let's face it as still is because if we don't harvest properly we're not going to eat. So the harvest home festival has been celebrated by pagans, Christians, Jews, any other religion that you can think of in between because it was such a huge deal to all of us. The harvest home is essentially where the last sheaf of corn or barley or whatever your crop was is brought into the barn and safely stored away and this is cause for huge amounts of rejoicing and at the end of this time of harvesting a feast was held including all of the surrounding country folk, their neighbours and whoever else is around. This is called the harvest home and this harvest home in the UK tended to be formalised and celebrated on Mickelmus which is the 29th of September where a goose stuffed with apples was roasted and everyone would feast then sing, drink wine, have a party and it was a bit of a knees up an abender. There was a lot of pagan traditions and depending on where you were in the country these varied enormously. I think I'll put a video up here for you should you want to delve a bit deeper into that. In the earliest pagan forms of these festivals there's a lot of blood rites that happened and sacrifice it was known to be a time for human sacrifice and to counter any devils or hexes that happened to be in the area. As we grew as a society this became more formalised into a more joyous and celebratory occasion and still today is regarded as such. So one would imagine that when the pilgrim fathers alighted having sailed across the pond in the Mayflower and set up camp wherever it was near the Wampanoag tribe somewhere forgive me I don't know but they would have bought their customs with them you know why not you don't stop celebrating Christmas just because you've moved house so they would have bought a celebration of the harvest festival with them and those traditions. One of which was harvest supper was celebrated with roast goose cattle and pigs and sheep need a couple more months to grow on but the goose is ready now and so it was always a bird that we had. Now so when the pilgrim fathers obviously went over and they said oh yes yeah I think we'd like a bit of a harvest home supper they didn't obviously have necessarily a couple of geese lying around because they'd possibly all died or been eaten but there were plenty of wild turkeys Wampanoag would have obviously introduced them to them and said that you know it's a good eating delicious wild turkey and why not they are delicious and also feel a crowd. Now of course with your wild turkey you carve it and what do you lovely american folk do you take the wishbone and then since it depends on the family occasion the two youngest will pull the wishbone apart and whoever gets the largest will make a wish. Now if that's not pagan I don't know what is this tradition of breaking a wishbone is actually a lot older than you probably realized and goes back to the Etruscan civilization who were an ancient Italian so southern european nation who lived many years BCE so we're talking 600 to 1000. They considered the wishbones could tell the fortunes of a person you would leave them to dry in the sun and they'd stroke them and wish upon them they were used for divination and were magical objects that could be used to predict the weather. I don't actually know how they could predict the weather and how they were it was divine so but apparently that is what they believed. After the Etruscans of course came the Romans who adopted this particular love of the wishbone and in fact instead of touching it and leaving it in the sun to make their wish they thought over it two men would grab hold of it and break it and whoever got the largest piece of the wishbone was the one who could make that wish. So the English nation then acquired this custom when it was conquered by the Romans who bought it with them Etruscans after all were the early Romans. They called the wishbone a merry thought merry thought the wishbone isn't that charming because you've got a wish or a merry thought from it so you thought this was an American staple tradition it's believed to have been carried out for over 3 000 years. One of the centerpieces of the Thanksgiving table is the cornucopia the horn of plenty and I think I've actually made a video about this which I'll put up here there's definitely quite a lot of cornucopia in that video so that you can learn about further about the traditions but the cornucopia is literally taken from the old pagan traditions of the Europeans. It is a beautiful tradition though because it does signify the abundance and the thanks and the joy of the season with the beautiful gourds and grains and stunning fruits that are full out of your cornucopia. This is a synonymous with American Thanksgiving tables it does mean that you're going to have great luck throughout the next year. It very much seems to me that different parts of America seem to have different styles of feast somebody wrote to me about beans with mushroom soup and onions on the top dried onions on the top I've never heard of anything like that before I did enjoy reading about everyone's traditional different foods that they have at their feast however it did seem that one thing was always included and that was pumpkin pie. Now I have a theory about pumpkin pie because of course the pumpkin is a North American gourd. We have tiny little turnips or mangleworms which is the rather disgusting of cattle food which we would turn into jack-o-lanterns for sour and halloween.  It's a pumpkin pie I reckon is such a traditional part of the Thanksgiving feast because it came from when they carved the pumpkins for sourn into jack-o-lanterns that's my theory I'm sticking to it. What do you think but it does make sense doesn't it and as part of a pagan Thanksgiving having a pumpkin pie is definitely one of the major events and finally for a pagan Thanksgiving if you happen to be in the state of Alabama you are most likely to have come across a deviled egg as part of your Thanksgiving feast now deviled eggs are eggs which have been mixed with spices i devilish stuff and you know served as an hors d'oeuvres. This is taken directly from the Romans who used to stuff full their guests with deviled eggs in order to fill them up before they gave them the wine. See it was an easy way to get your guests to not drink too much wine by giving them lots of eggs to start with they even called this to fill with eggs but in Latin obviously not English they've used it as a form of appetite suppressant maybe that's what you're doing in Alabama. I wanted to mention the deviled eggs here because they are quite old-fashioned aren't they but it's got nothing to do with the devil and everything to do with spiciness you know devilish diavolo if you think of pizzas from Italy diavolo they're always hot and that is what devilish means if you bring all of these traditions together you would be looking at a pretty pagan Thanksgiving. I love the thought of all the women together preparing the individual dishes for Thanksgiving and putting their blessings into it that pretty much sums up any feast that I have as this is pure kitchen magic. Let me know what you think in the comments below. Don't forget my patreon shop is up and running get a patreon.com forward slash Ginny Meddl for the details you can also sign up there to become a coven member. My other tiers are sold out because there's only one Ginny to go around. 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Welcome. Thanks for being here for another episode of the nonprofit show. Again, welcome to you, William Schwab CPA data visualization manager with your part-time controller. Welcome, Bill. Thank you very much and I can't believe I mean almost 600 episodes that is unbelievable congrats congrats to you both. I remember right because originally this was only supposed you was only going to go on for a couple weeks right and look at look at this it's amazing. Well, you know, we've learned a lot of words and a lot of concepts over these 600 issues. I gotta say data viz is one of them. I'm when I first heard that I'm like, okay, that's ridiculous somebody just made that up and now data viz. It's a hot topic and it's even in your title. It is. Yes, it is. Yeah. And a whole group within just within yptc dedicated to it are what we call our data visualization group or dvg. Okay, what. So, so talk to us about this whole concept because you're, you're telling us that we need to really look at how we're presenting information first and understanding this at a core level, not just because it's fun or different but this is really something that we can help all of us understand the numbers is that right. It really is because if you think about it. You know we always say, you know, for, and it's funny I say this as an accountant right like I spent the better part of my professional career, preparing understanding interpreting and explaining balance sheets and income statements you know I'm saying well maybe that doesn't matter as much but it does because we're just saying, look, human as as human beings we are confronted with so much information on on a on a daily basis on a minute by minute basis even and, and certainly the pandemic has served to accelerate that so, you know you think of your typical nonprofit director and just the, the number of information streams with which they're bombarded by sitting down to read through a financial statement is not something they're going to have time for, but there's important information there and there's important stories to be told and that's where the data visualization component comes in it's really helping to highlight and pointing to and saying this this right here this this is what the most important story is. This bill, one of the things I think of for data visualization, like that is right up the, I don't know what do you want to call it right up the lane, if you will, for the board of directors because I also think dashboards charts graphs, you know, pivot tables, that is what board really eat up because it provides data in such a visual way that is easier to grasp now I myself bill I'm a very visual person very you can tell me what's on a chart and it means nothing until I can see it. So I love that we're talking about this because I'm listening, you know truly from how we might present information to our board, but it's actually more about all stakeholder groups is that correct. It really is and I'm glad you mentioned the board I know I focused in on an executive director but what we've seen from from our experience at YPTC is it's really many diverse constituent groups and stakeholders within nonprofits. They may not know that they're asking for graphics but they're asking questions that can best be answered by a graphic right so it's like, you know maybe you have a development director who's looking at data and say, Oh my gosh like fundraising statistics are amazing we need to highlight them to our board, or maybe a board member is saying, I see this number on our, you know, on our balance sheet. You know it's telling us how much cash we have well is that enough not enough too much what what's the context behind it, and then maybe on the flip side of that back to my executive director example and executive director might be saying, you know these numbers and this is what we have to highlight for our board and all of those can be answered by by a data visualization. Yeah. Another thing I really have gotten into is infographics, and I love having you know a sheet that literally is graphics of information so it really is that visualization of data. In the dean bill a lot of annual reports, move into an impact report like instead of having a 2728 page, you know brochure, it's simplifying into maybe a variety of infographics, but ways in which that can be used as this very sage woman told me never cook one thing for dinner that you can't have multiple multiple options for so I think about this in a meatloaf strategy right it's okay we have the ground beef, we have the data. How else might we use that ingredient, if you will to repackage repurpose so Julia I think of you all the time because that to me is such a critical component. No, that's I like the meatloaf comparison now. Now we have a term we we call one when we're taking data from different sources to combine the visualization we call it that that's a data smoothie, so you can add that one to your repertoire. Yeah, mixing together whatever flavors flavors you want but but it's so it's so true and you mentioned you know you mentioned annual reports and we're seeing, we're seeing more and more clients asking for us to help them. To get those impact statistics in embedded in their annual reports but even better, because as great as an annual report is it's it's basically obsolete as soon as it's published right so we've even had clients coming to us and saying, these statistics that we put in our annual report that said here's our impact. Let's refresh that on a regular basis and keep it on our website so that at any point in time funders the general public all those stakeholders they can come in and see at a glance the impact that the organization is having. So talk to us then I'm hearing like maybe we need some data visualization that stays static and maybe we need some that remains dynamic, meaning we can update it and what does that look like static versus dynamic. Sure, so, so really static you know if you think of static, you know, in its simplest form, it really is, you know what you see is what you get you know it's a graph it's as of a point in time right so you know let's say something as simple, you know as looking at, you know a cash forecast and certainly something of great interest to so many nonprofits out there. But it's there because it tells a specific story. Now that's not to say that that story is not going to change from month to month so when we stay static we don't mean we only do it one time and that's it. The graphic was created to tell a one time story, but that's not to say that it's not going to adapt and change to tell either an evolving story or a different story in in coming months. And we've even had clients where you know maybe we've prepared that that cash forecaster that or that that chart that shows revenue, and they've come back and said, Okay, this is great. So based on what we're seeing here we're going to take action on this so now we want the next version of this graphic to now chart our progress towards this goal that we've set for ourselves. I love it that's super nerdy. That's super nerdy one of the things I'm not a numbers person like I know what I know and I know what I don't know Bill and I will tell you I'm not a numbers person staring at financial documents is like it's Greek you know like I can comprehend it but it's going to take me longer than the average bear, probably to really grasp it and it's a little embarrassing I'm saying this on national live webcast. However, that's the truth. So seeing this in a visual visual concept. Julie it makes me think we've had some amazing guests on that talk about you know being of board service, and you're going to meet some today that you said you haven't even seen in person. The logistics we've heard really is it takes about a year or two years before a board member truly gets into their own and their confidence to ask questions, especially about the financials. So having the static dynamic document or, you know, possibilities, I think helps to engage the board members at a deeper level. Have you, have you seen that to be true. Absolutely. And I think and Julie I think one of the slides we have today speaks to like these three core concepts of design principles, and that feeds a lot into what you were saying Jared where it's, you know, that that first concept that we talk about is, we want to, you know, we want to put what you're in. Right, you know, I mean I think most board members and and I mentioned this earlier you know, I've spent the bulk of my career and as an accountant I'm a CPA right but to your point Jared you know some folks they're, they're not, they're not numbers folks and that's okay. And frankly that the human mind is just wired to absorb images far more readily than it's than it's wired to absorb numbers so in those core concepts we say you know, invite the reader in you know make them want to engage in in the content. And we kind of use it in and when we and we've done some of this training internally for our staff as well we give the example of something being either foreboding or inviting. And we use the example we actually put two pictures up on the screen we do this we the one picture we put up we literally put a graphic up of this big old stone prison. And right would you feel invited and the point is you're actually not supposed to feel invited right it's supposed to make you feel uninvited, but yet that's how a lot of traditional financial statements are they are foreboding there they don't have that sense of inviting whereas if you build the visualization right, it says to the reader, hey there's a lot of really great information in here you need to come in and see this. I so appreciate that. Because when I think of who's around the board table, and then how do we get because we truly want board members to engage in conversation we want them to ask questions we want them, you know, to ask the hard questions that's their job. And I love that that you share that it seems so basic. And I'm sure I am curious. How do we put this in a visual way if we're not a graphics person right like how do we make this, if you will, so remedial to create a visualization in a way that if we're not a graphics, you know, more person how do we do this. But it really leads into the other two core design concepts that we have so you know I mentioned the first one that you know invite the reader and so once we've gotten them through the door right you know we, you know we're not, you know it's a it's a welcoming door as opposed to the prison analogy that I use but we say, you know, slap in the boat and breathing dragon in in the visualization world and in designing a good visualization right less is more right and we always say like, tune out the noise and turn up the So I like to use the example, you know, think of, you know, think of think of like a word search game right you know that we all that we all did in school and elementary school right where we're spending time trying to find the words on the page. And that's a fun exercise, but it's not a fun exercise if you're a board member trying to read a financial statement and quite honestly that's what a traditionally formatted financial statement might look like so, you know, you almost need to, you know, give the board member that word search with what's already circled so you're pointing to them saying this is the story this is what's most important and that's what we say by by tune out the noise get rid of what you don't need and just focus on on what you do need, which also then leads into the third core concept which is interpret explicitly you know make your point and make your point multiple times right it's okay to it's okay to repeat yourself and say this is the important concept and maybe, maybe it's a you know a text interpretation you're giving that and the graphic is serving to support your to support your text, we take a lot at yptc kind of our static visualization standard that we've developed. It actually takes a lot of inspiration from from newspapers, and it does that on purpose because if you think about how the page of a newspapers laid out. It's laid out in such a way to draw the reader's eye to what's most important you know that headline grabs your attention right that's the invite the reader in and then invites you to dig dig deeper into the story. Now, I love that I love love love that of course I was in the newspaper business for 30 years so thank you for saying that because I just love that but I'm really interested in the mix between the story telling and that static graphic.  And I don't want to use the word manipulative but it seems to me that you're leading them through a direction that you, you want to tell versus letting it being open for interpretation. And can you talk to us a little bit about that. Sure. And that really comes back a little bit to that distinction between what's, you know, a static visualization or a dynamic visualization right but but let's focus on on on static first because it's that it's that that like you said like the slide shows here it's that storytelling static graphic, you know it's telling an important story, and it's interpreting you know all those design concepts I mentioned it's interpreting explicitly for the reader. So we actually you know if you think of a chart or graph, the very first thing we put on a chart and graph that we might do for a client if you looked at the page. The biggest thing you're going to see at the top isn't actually the graph itself, it's it's a headline you know we call it a headline literally like in a newspaper like what is this chart telling you, you know and and maybe it's something saying, hey, and I'm just paraphrasing here but but hey, you're running low on cash or cash forecast isn't looking good for the next six months right like we're not going to sugarcoat the bad news if there's bad news to be told, but likely if there's good news to be told we're going to want to trumpet that success to and say look at this fan you know fundraising is up you know all rabbit you know whatever it is you know you're going to, you're basically giving away the answer first and that's okay because remember we said what did I say we said board members are pressed for time executive directors are pressed for time it's okay. You don't never never bury the lead right Julia there there's another old newspaper added so it's okay to say here's what's most important here's that headline, and then we give our interpretation well here's why that's important, and then we get to the graph itself, but if you only read the headline and the interpretation. I'm not saying the graphs not important but if you only read the headline and the interpretation. You already know the story that the graph is telling. Well, you know that's a great way to look at it that's a great way to look at it because if you, if you can understand that. To Jared's point, it seems to me that you're going to get board members that ask questions, but all too often and anyone who's ever done any board service. You get these these numbers of these reports and very, very few people will ask questions.  And so it seems to me with the data is you're going to have more of an opportunity to get everybody thinking about a particular area. It is it's all about making the data accessible right data equity we want the accessible of the data accessible to all the stakeholders within the organization both internal and external. Wow. And I think to the more, the more positive the headline is or the data is and your budget is probably less questions. Right, because when things are working well. It's, why would we lift the hood and see what's going on right right as a fundraiser. That is when I lift the hood because I'm thinking. We know when things are dismal, we know what we need to do, but when things are really good, we don't often think about when things start to wax and Wayne. Right now bill I've seen a lot of my clients actually extreme experience extreme growth, which is good. However, the reality is that's not in perpetuity. So what are we doing now to prepare for that, three years down the road, when that funding starts to pull away. And that would be interesting to do an AB test of these headlines and the data visualization bill and maybe you've done it before is like, share the same news, but one of them says, you know, basically, hey, we're up the creek without a paddle and the other one says, we are loving this, you know this ride things things are fantastic, and to see kind of how it's how it's managed from from that interpretation of the people. It really is and you mentioned so many organizations that have had, you know, so much new funding over the past couple years and we actually had a client like that that we did a visualization for where it's like, they were, they were doing great, you know, great fundraising results wonderful, you know huge uptake over the last couple years, but when you started to look at the detail what the detail showed was, yes, it's great that you're getting all this new revenue, but the person but but a lot of it that's coming in is restricted. So, while your restricted revenues going up as a percentage of your total revenue you're unrestricted is actually going down. Right. And we actually kind of presented that as like a two part chart where we said look here's the total which looks great. But here's the percentage of your unrestricted that actually shows that downward trend. So we're not saying this is a bad thing but it's something you as a board and organization need to act upon and address. Be aware of right to truly have that awareness, so that we can get ahead of that and not have to be reactionary. So that's that's really good. So moving into the storytelling, let's talk about the graphic placement. I'm curious to hear, Bill, what you and your team talk about when it comes to this tips for success in relation to graphic placement. Educate us on this. So it's really about, you know, kind of understanding or kind of realizing and embracing the fact that a graphic can a graphic that's created can be used in more than one place. You know, maybe it's going in an annual report, maybe it's going in the monthly financial reports that the board is seeing. Maybe it's going on the organization's website and all of that is okay and and really should be embraced and just understanding that okay you know depending on the format of where this graph is going to end up. You know we want to make sure that it's something that that's portable that will that will translate from from one from from one version of the media to the next. I'm so curious, Bill, because I'm thinking of how I might use this and implement this practice with my clients and several are using YPTC by the way so so I know that they have the the concept behind this. So I would consider, you know, if it's an impact report or a quarterly report that you send that out either as like a PDF electronic version or hard copy version, and then you say on that document, you know, to see real time updates please visit this link, and perhaps that's where you're updating the dynamic information. Do you see that that ability, we do or we'll say you know hey to see the latest information, you know here's the link you're going to want to go to or maybe even a QR code we're starting to see that more where it's like hey, you know use this QR code it's going to take you know I mentioned one of one of the clients we worked with, you know put what they call their, their KPI report their leverage report that shows their impact right on their website and it's all live and interactive and you can can click through it even by program to see the impact that each is doing it it's absolutely phenomenal and has been utterly transformative for them. Yeah, I love this, and I think it's really where you know this next generation of donors and funders and philanthropic investors want to go. They want to see this and I think that we need in the nonprofit sector, we need to kind of get away from the if it's bad news we don't want to share it or we want to hide it. We don't want the good news. And so, I think this is a really interesting time. It is, and I mentioned, you know, kind of our, you know, our approach to how we'll put a, you know, a static graphic together and I mentioned kind of that that headline that interpretation and the graph itself but there's actually other, what we call sort of required elements so we have five things that we say need to be on on every static chart or graph so I mentioned the first three. The other, the other two are well who prepared it. You know, so we know hey it was a real person right or this is the person we can go to with questions, and the other item which arguably might be the most important. Although arguably any of the five could be most important but that final one is the source where'd you get the data from because even if it's bad news. You know we want to build credibility we want to have that credibility with the reader where they can say, Oh, this came from the accounting system or this came from our budget or this came from the fundraising database or maybe a combination of all three, which is the neat thing like that goes back to my data smoothie comment right like you can combine data for multiple sources which is fantastic. And I want to add to that and thank you so much bill because this is really got my brain, revving and high gear because there's so many ways to implement utilize this I believe. I want to give a shout out to anyone do grant writing and submitting proposals, because these documents when you're given the opportunity to add any additional documentation. This is good information to attach. So again that smoothie or that meatloaf concept, you know this is not only for accounting and this is not only for board discussions. This truly can be used to to level you know your message your narrative in that form of submission for proposals. I love love love love when the option comes up to attach up to three additional documents and they don't tell you what it what it has to be. That to me is a great time to go and say, What good information do we have that's relevant it's timely, you know, and I might attach this. Another good news is you can often attach multiple PDFs right and merge them into one PDF so maybe you have, you know, a couple of documents but you want to put them into one. That's, that's fantastic so I just wanted to make sure that we we take that meatloaf recipe even further. You know, Bill, this has been amazing and we are really, really excited to have you back on to keep going with this because, you know, this is one of those topics that is really, I feel like it's building interest and steam. It's a new way of communicating and it's a it's a stronger way of communicating. And so this is just, I think, a magical time for all of us in the nonprofit sector to really understand this. We do have you coming back on to talk more about this because this is where we need to be and we need to be understanding this so thank you I love that you're a CPA and that you are in swimming in this stream. I think it's super cool. I really do. It's so fun to be at this like intersection of accounting and technology. It's amazing and I'm grateful that everybody on your side is thinking about it because I gotta believe that this could be uncomfortable for some of folks in the accounting realm that it's, it's kind of changing the way that they look at information and that they present information. Here's Bill's information, so to speak, on the data visualization piece, your part-time controller. Again, we have Bill coming back on to talk more about this and this is, as we like to say, an evolving story. It's only getting better and getting more interesting. So Bill, this has been fabulous. Thank you, thank you, thank you. I want to make sure everybody, I publicly thank Jarrett Ransom, my intrepid co-host, the non-profit nerd herself for giving me a break last week. It was really nice, so thank you, thank you, thank you Jarrett for holding down the fort. I do appreciate it. Again, we want to thank all of our presenting sponsors without them. I wouldn't have been allowed to go away last week. 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It's a new, it's a new, it's a new, new, new, new. It's a new, it's a new, it's a new, new, new.  Okay, this week, let's kick it off with. Okay, there's a kind of like a half updated, half new product. So a while ago, we bought a whole bunch of these hammer header kits for Raspberry Pi Zero that only come with the male plug header and we kind of forgot to put them in the store. And then we found them and we're like, oh, we should really stock these. So if you have a Raspberry Pi Zero W or two W or original zero and you want to plug in a bonnet or a hat or a fat or whatever some sort of thing that uses the two by 20 header and you don't want to solder, you don't want to learn how to solder, you can use these Pimeroni hammer headers and what they do is they let you do this kind of cold weld where you literally use a hammer or a mallet, use any one that you have already and you gently tap, tap, tap and pop the pins of this header through and it will make a solid connection that you then don't have to solder. So I'll show it on the overhead cause it's kind of funky. We haven't shown these in a while. Okay. So you get your Raspberry Pi Zero and it comes with like a plastic plate and then these little screws that help line things up and these hammer headers, you can see there's like these little nubs here and they're kind of like springs. Like you can't press them in by hand, but again, if you put this thick piece of plastic on and hammer with a mallet, it will press all the way through, pop in and then you'll basically have a solid connection without needing to solder. So it could be useful if you don't have a soldering iron or you don't trust yourself with one or you don't want to give someone else one. Yeah, it's a couple bucks and all you need is a mallet or hammer. Okay, next up. Okay, this is the update to the AP3429A which was a buck converter for about five volts down to three volts. We love these little buck converters. Once in a while you just need an amp or so out and you want to give it a couple AA batteries or you want to give it a lipo or give it USB and an LDO won't do the job because again, you need an amp and you're not going to get an amp out of a small LDO. The only thing is the AP3429A, you'll never believe what happened, Phil. It's basically unavailable. There's a chip shortage, I can't get it. Hey, where has been? How's it going? Yeah, so we ordered the chips and we don't think they're ever coming in and so I was like, you know what? Let's just revise this. I found a similar enough chip. Can you go two more? This one? Yeah, it's the TLV 62569. So this is an update slash revision but I'm keeping the same product ID because it's basically just a better version of the previous chip. It's a slightly higher frequency. It actually has higher current output. I also doubled the copper thickness on the PCB to two ounce copper. I still would only really recommend it for about like one 1.2 amp continuous but you can get two amp peak. I think I got 1.5 amp continuous actually on this board but I promise it depends on the ambient temperature but if you do need like a ton of current at 3.3 volts for Wi-Fi, for cellular, this is a very fine buck converter and as it'll break out, we'll, it's pin compatible with many TO220 size LDOs, I think the LD1117, 3.3. This is pinout compatible. Okay, next up. Another update. This is the Icarus IoT board. This is the NRF 91. Oh goodness, can you go to the next thing? I keep forgetting the whole point no more. It's the NRF 91.60. This updates a couple things. One, there's now flash memory on the board. Second, it's updated, yeah, the flash memory is on the back. The module itself got updated to like engineering change order B1 instead of B0 and probably a couple other component tweaks. So this is V2 of the Icarus Feather. However, it is essentially the same thing. Just a couple extra updates and upgrades. It's still a Feather compatible. It is still a cellular module that you can program. I think it uses Zephyr RTOS to program again, not Arduino or MicroPython compatible. All right, next up and this is why we had the code. Banana, banana. We noticed that we didn't have any banana plugs in the store. I thought it would be a good idea to stock some and I thought these were kind of neat because they're not just banana plugs. They're like stackable plus retractable, which was kind of cool. So these are four millimeter standard banana plugs. So I'll show them on the overhead because you kind of got to show the... Yeah, I'll show the two different colors here before I go. Stackability and retractability. Okay, so first up, they're stackable. So each one has a slot at the end. And so you're like, hey, I want more and they slide in very nicely. They're very solid. They got little grippy so you can remove them. What I thought was kind of neat is they have this little retracting plastic protector. So these can be like hanging out on your bench top and like you don't have to worry about them touching because they're protected.  And you can plug them in easily and safely. They're very high quality cables. I really like them.  Okay, and this week we have two stars of the show this week besides you, Lady Aida and our team and our customers and everyone who makes this Adafruit thing go. Yeah. Our community. It's two boards. Look at these two things. That's right. We've got two updates. We've got the ADS-1015 and the ADS-1115. Two, I squared C analog digital converters are very popular. But we've stomach QTFI them because we love to add plug and play support to all of our breakout boards. We're kind of going backwards in time. And now we're getting to the older boards. So these are 12 and 16 bit ADCs. They work over I squared C. There's tons of support for them. There's Arduino support, circuit Python, micro Python, everyday Python, REST, whatever. It's like these are kind of ancient and so they're well documented and well supported. You know, the 16 bits a little bit more expensive. 12 bit is gonna be good enough for most uses. It's actually kind of not, it's not common to see I squared C ADCs. Most ADCs are SPI. And so, you know, these are very handy for when you just have to add some high quality analog inputs or if you have a board, you know, propeller chip, for example, or a Raspberry Pi that hasn't had an ADC plug in it. And so now what we've updated is it comes in the stomach QT format, which means it's got these JST SH connectors. You can use cables to plug and play them with our feathers, with the Raspberry Pi, so no soldering required. Of course, if you want to connect to the output pins, you may want to solder to them, but at least for the entry level wiring and testing, no soldering is required. And you can have up to four of these, I think on one I squared C bus just by noodling with the address pin, I think tying it to ground or tying it to SCL will let you choose multiple addresses as well. So, you know, very easy, very reliable way of adding multiple 12 or 16 bit analog inputs. And that is New Products This Week.


The war is again returning to the eastern and southern regions of Ukraine. The war in Ukraine may escalate beyond the southern and eastern regions. This becomes quite probable if Russia continues to increase arms production and enhance technologies as this was stated by the commander of the Joint Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Lieutenant General Serhiy Nayev, in his interview with ABC News. In particular, speaking with journalists, Nayev warned that if Russia continues to increase arms production and enhance technologies with the help of its allies, the war may once again extend beyond the eastern and southern regions. We are getting ready for that, he said, we're building defences, putting minds and training our forces. The general noted that in Ukraine they understand that the current war is a war of resources. We understand that there is currently a resource war going on. The Russian Federation gets its resources with the help of the Axis of Evil. It is North Korea, it is Iran. Lieutenant General Serhiy Nayev told ABC News, and we, with the help of our partners receiving air defense equipment from them, are opposing the Russian Federation with their resources. It must be understood that the reduction of aid will hit our defense capabilities. But we will fight with what we have, with what we have. Technology is critical. The target for which, according to the old Soviet style technologies, it was necessary to spend 100 shells with the help of Western technologies, much less is needed and it is measured in numbers up to 10, so the technology always outweighs the number. And I will emphasize once again that this help is very, very important to us, Nayev said.


T. F. N. N. headline news update everyone this is Basil Chapman host of the Tiger technicians hour coming up straight after this T. F. N. N. Update this is the noontime update that does up a hundred and seventy twenty five thousand six eighty seven had a much stronger move up earlier it went to twenty five thousand seven ninety six pull back some but still acting very nicely but within the context of an arch formation that should over the next couple of days start to make slightly lower lows and maybe lower highs the S&P did pretty much the same thing and this particular moment the S&P is up twenty at twenty eight nineteen also had a much bigger move up earlier on it was up at the twenty eight twenty nine the twenty eight twenty eight level was very strong resistance to went to fraction over it now it's pulled back the Magnetian stochastic are not very strong so this should also make lower lows and lower highs over the coming few days the QQQ is at an even better move percentage wise they ran up at the moment they're at one seventy nine fifty three up a dollar thirty one went all the way to one eighty point sixty nine pulling back some the other technicals are a little bit better so we'll see what happens over the coming few days one seventy eight fifty I'd say is pretty must be strong support otherwise it's going to go quite a bit low gold was earlier it was quite a bit lower it tried to rally now it's back down minus nine and thirteen thirteen looks like it's resting after a good couple of days and the key support now is at the twelve I'm sorry the thirteen oh nine level in the short term and the dollar is trying to rally it's at this particular moments up eleven cents and ninety six sixty five we'll go through a number of these aspects in the coming show in a few minutes in my in my Tiger technicians hour and in the meantime what we are looking at is that the TLT which is the bonds that the 20 year Lehman T bond front is just down 24 cents at one twenty four eighty two that is saying that years are still very low and that that gap three days ago is still holding very nicely so that that's favorable so far to the yields and actually my technical analysis says that there should be another leg above yesterday's high which was at twenty one twenty five ninety four so we're watching the TLT closely to see if it goes to the one twenty sixes over the coming few days battle chop and signing off hope to have you back here straight after the commercials coming up for my Tiger technicians show and later on we will have a white and some of


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The next speaker is Richard Hartmann and he will be talking about the FOSSTEM infrastructure and give a review about it. And please welcome Richard Hartmann. Thank you. I didn't. Just a second, let me unify my output. Okay, I need to look in the other direction. Doesn't matter. Well, maybe, maybe. Okay, I shouldn't have to. Ah, no, it works. Sorry, sorry. I should have done this earlier. Okay, so infrastructure review. The subtitle is very important. This is like the third year in a row when we didn't have any major incidents, which and things are settling down. Same as always, I'm going to give a quick overview of basically the current state, because we always have new people and also what changed over the years, and then uncommonly for lightning talks, we actually have questions. So we will be passing the mic around. So anything you want to know, you're more than welcome to ask. So this is almost the same talk as last year and the year before, which is really, really good for us. Of course, this means we, it's becomes a little bit more and more settled. I started doing infrastructure taking over the video team in such a video network for the active network 2015 ish. And everything was on fire all the time at the same time in all the places, which obviously was not very nice on our nerves and sleep cycle and everything. And that got majorly improved. We actually, like literally in those 20 years when we had FOSSTEM, this is the third year where staff could actually sit down and not run in circles all the time. Like the last 17 years before that were maybe not as nice. I could even spend half a day in my death room without having to run to put out fires. And like the first year we had this people were super nervous because something is about to happen. Something must break. Everything is working. This is not normal. And people are getting more relaxed, which is again really good for us. So we have this place of stability. We don't need to throw everything out the window and reimplement within a week. Like we have a place of stability. And we actually really get to get a lot of sleep when compared to the years before, which is really, really nice. Core Infra is basically the same as last year. We still have the ASR 1006, which is doing all the net stuff. It's doing ACLs. It's doing DHCP. It's doing all the VLANs for the Wi-Fi. It's doing the BGP upstream to cold. We have the same two servers, which are now really fully Ansible. So we actually redeployed them last week and nothing broke, which was super nice. Well, actually one dashboard broke. We are at the place where we can really have this conference out of a box and be really quick about it. Our monitoring still permits this in Grafana. We are super happy with this. And we put the public dashboard on the Cortex cluster by Grafana. So that's backed by some actual... We don't get hammered into death when I tweet about dashboard Fostum org. It actually stays stable, which is nice. The video box has a completely new version or somewhat new version. You can see all the updates in the repository. And also there is a talk, which ended, I think, like 40 minutes ago, where they go into detail about how those things are actually done. Same as last year, those video boxes stream into the render farm, which we'll be seeing a picture of in a few seconds. And those also transcode everything for streaming off-site and from there. It's duplicated to everyone who wants to watch the videos. And anyone who is a speaker or a death room manager, you will get emails pointing to S-Review, which allows you to self-cut your talks, which is super nice. If any of you are organizing conferences, this is really, really nice because you have the overview of the different audio streams. If you have several video streams, you can choose what do you want to see. When does it start? When does it end? Does this need some improvement? Maybe it needs some cleaning up of the audio track. You can give this feedback to the video team. They can clean up, do whatever. Republish it for your cutting. And then you can put exactly where your talk starts, where it ends, which is super nice because else we would have to do literally hundreds and hundreds of reviews, which I think the record was we got more or less done after the next foster, which kind of sucked. So paralyzing this and giving this to the actual speakers and death room managers is super, super nice. Of course, this means we can paralyze. And if you're doing conference, I highly suggest you do something similar. Render Farm. Yes, it is literally a heap of thinkpads. Same as the years before, we buy those bulk off of eBay, all the same model. We use them this weekend, and then we sell them at cost at the info desk. That usually happens on a Saturday. So if you want to have a cheap laptop, which also has been used for foster, you can get it. We even leave the data on them. Of course, it's not secret data. And the nice thing is every year we get a quicker machine. Of course, every year we just buy the next delta of machine. These are the X2 250s. And it works. And also it scales really nicely. If you have 10 more death rooms, just put a few more laptops, and that's it. And they have built-in UPS. So if you have power outage, they actually keep on running, which is also nice. Yep. One thing we did change is we changed our DNS 64 to coordinates, which is super brand banking new. Ben literally cut not even a release. One of our team members is a maintainer of coordinates. And this is an experimental branch running DNS 64 just for here. And it worked.  And we actually had 50% reduction in CPU usage as compared to bind. Of course, everyone hates bind. I mean, it works. And it keeps the internet alive, but no one likes it. Some timelines. Router installation is more or less static. That's totally fine. Network up. We actually improved by one full hour for the passive caving, which was super nice. Like, as you can see, like the 2015 one, that was really bad when I got, when I got to leave here at like 5 in the morning and things have worked. But then we had two opening talks, one with we have network and one we are sorry we don't have network. So things really improved. Same for the monitoring. Monitoring actually was here year round. The servers ran through. And except for that redeploy, we had monitoring 24 seven for the whole year. It didn't monitor a lot, but like we had it running. So that's also super nice. Video team also improved. 2016 was kind of icky course. We lost quite some video content, as you can see, like 26 rooms times two hours. That hurts. So they also get more sleep. Like literally a few of the video team slept in the knock a few years ago. So that all this gets better, which is nice. For next year we want to have centralized locking through Loki. So everyone can see what's happening at the same time. All the video boxes and such will also do all their logging to a central instance where you can go deeper into stuff. We have a dashboard. I invite you to hammer it so it gets, it goes down, but it doesn't go down, but hammer it if you want. Pretty much all our stuff is in there or in the video thing. And also we are actively talking to people, trying to help them bootstrap their own conferences. We actually had several groups of people which we show through all our infodesk, knock and such. So they get a feeling of how we do things and explained how to run a conference. If you have a conference, which is obviously same in intention and stuff like FOSDEM, like fully open source, no major interests by any companies, like a community thing, feel free to talk to us. We are actively trying to reach out and try and spread this to other places. That's it. And I hope you have a few questions. Thank you. There's one. I just want to know how to get one of those sweet thingpads. The thingpads, on Saturday at I think 10 or 11.30, we have a sale at Infodesk K every year. I don't know if that's the exact time. So if you want one next year, like for this year, they're already gone, but for next year, be at the Infodesk early-ish on Saturday and just ask when that sale is. And yeah, basically that's it. Yeah, for this year it's too late. Like they're gone super fast because it's like 40 laptops or 30 for, I don't know, how many thousand attendees. Thank you for all the great work. Is there any data on how much the NAT64 has been used? Do we see more native IPv6 data? And is that somehow related to the drop in, proportional drop in CPU usage for the NAT64? No, so first to answer the second question first, we ran bind during this weekend and we switched over during this weekend. So we could compare directly. So these are actual numbers which directly relate to each other. As to the first question, we have two networks. One is dual stack, one is completely IPv6 with NAT64 and DNS64. Most of the traffic we see is IPv6 only. That's already the case since last year. I actually dropped that slide because it's been the same for the last two years that we are basically IPv6 has more or less one. The major IPv4 usage we see is mainly VPNs which we think are stuck on either literal octets in the configuration or old versions of open VPN or something which just didn't support IPv6. But most traffic these days is IPv6 except for what we think is VPN traffic. Yeah, so do you also log the video streams? I mean a couple of years ago there was a lot of talk about oh, if it was on YouTube, it was Flash, it was proprietary Adobe and you're also streaming in WebM with this open source. Is there any difference or doesn't user care today? You mean the content of the people who make the talks? Yeah, yeah. What are the statistics about that? Yes-ish we do but not in a nicely integrated system. We are moving more and more stuff into our observability platform. We kind of have a split between video team and infrastructure team. So the video team is independent in what they do but they keep adding more stuff to our observability. So we also have more insight into what's actually happening and all of that data is completely public on just a second. Yeah, dashboard for some org. Like everything we have, everything we use internally you can just see literally the same thing. So what exactly is the render farm used for and why not use a, dare I say it at this conference, a cloud provider? So first question, what the render farm is used for? Transcoding video. So we have the raw video which, like the raw video comes in here you have to stream from this laptop. You have to stream from the camera. Both are dumped on local disk here and also they're streamed to the laptops. They transcode it, they reduce the size basically. Transcode them for streaming and for another disk dump. And why we're not using a cloud farm? We used it I think 2014 or 15. We actually used Google Cloud back then because we had some issues and that was quick because we had a few people who could do this quickly but we prefer to use open source software and most cloud stuff is not a GPLv3 which means it's not really fully open source in the actual intention of open source at least under my or most of us, our interpretation. So we just prefer to do it locally. Also if ever our internet cuts out we have everything local so at least the people who are local could still be watching some stuff. But the main reason is ethical reasons. We don't want to export this to somewhere else. The only thing which we really rely on is the Grafana cloud because people destroyed our instance in the early days and that meant we didn't have monitoring ourselves and that kind of stuff. Anyone else? Any plans to further disincentivate the use of forced and dual stack instead of the main Wi-Fi ACID? Because I was wondering if you kept, for example, the SSD stable and people connect to it three years ago and didn't change the laptop, didn't change anything. They will still connect to this one. If you, for example, change from Fosdm-dwaStack to Fosdm-underscore-dwaStack they will be forced to do this choice again. Yes, Ish, we used to call it legacy for internal political reasons that got changed to dual stack. We don't actually mind if someone is on dual stack and I don't want to break anyone's connections. People are more than welcome to use dual stack. The reason why we have IPv6 only on the main SSID is this is a developers conference. We want to kind of push people towards the IPv6 only because they tend to fix stuff. We have a major distribution fix quite a bit of things once we just started sending all people who had complaints just to that booth and tell them, okay, talk to your distribution because it's their fault. They fixed it really quickly, but we don't want to be too pushy about it. Thanks a lot, Richard, for your talk.


Welcome to Digital Asset News, the top stories in cryptocurrency digital assets. Man, break them out of bite-sized pieces. Today, we've got some thought-provoking articles. We're going to start with this one. It's called Here's How Cardano Can Fail. And this isn't written by just anybody. This is actually directly from Charles Hoskinson, as he was interviewed by Lex Friedman. This was a five-hour interview, and we're going to go over just what could cause Cardano Could Fail, some of the different hurdles that they're trying to overcome, and then also how to get out of tribalism, because it's really not too great for the space. And we'll take a look at that article in depth, because I think it's good to let go of some of our precognitions, which delves us into tribalism. On top of that, we'll take a look at Paraguay to unveil Bitcoin legislations next month. That's pretty great news. And some not-so-good news, but it doesn't matter. World Bank refuses to help El Salvador, make Bitcoin legal tender, talking about environmental and transparency issues, the same old Reagan-Marot and Song Advance. And then finally, we'll take a look at one of the most, I think, concerning articles, which is the SEC leaves Bitcoin and crypto off the regulatory agenda 2021, and why I believe it really comes down to the XRP lawsuit. So we'll take a look at what's going on there. But first, I just want to make mention that today is Sunday, the 20th, 1030 AM, El Paso, Texas time. And it says another Sunday dump, which is not surprising if you've been in crypto any length of time. And here we are. So right now, the total market cap is 1.44 trillion and everything's down. Just so you know how far down we are, let's take a look at the actual numbers. So real quick, Bitcoin's down 3%, 5% for Ethereum and so on and so forth. It was actually much worse about an hour ago. But you're looking at a Bitcoin price of 34.6 Ethereum, teetering on 2,000, Binance Coin 327, and so on and so forth. And everything's just in the red. Is there anything green for 24 hours? No. But in the hour, we've seen some recoveries, which is always positive. Kusama, Cosmos, well, FTX token, sure, points, but not too much, 1% for Chainlink. So actually pretty good day, quite honestly. And there was this, there was a message that I got, which made a lot of sense to me. And this is on Twitter, and it was from JB. And JB asked the question, what do you think about buying Bitcoin instead of Alt? Because I said, hey, it's in their Sunday dump, just came as a quick dump. It's buying Bitcoin instead of Alt on these dips, since it's unclear whether we go bare or bull at this point. And if we continue the bull market, it's highly likely Bitcoin will lead the way. So it's better to buy Alt after all that happens. And it's a good question. And it really comes down to this, we've seen so many dips and it's like every Sunday or sometimes every Tuesday, we just see it kind of like a little bit of degradation of what is going on with the market. So what I said to myself is, because I'm always saying buy the dip, buy the dip, buy the dip, buy the dip, and it gets repetitive and it gets, it gets annoying. Let's, let's, let's call a spade a spade. So I thought about this. I will always buy the dips. If I have the money, like in one of the dips, I just half asked it, I couldn't really buy too much. But this is what I'm going to do this time. And I think I'm going to switch things up a little bit. Tell me which thing in the comment section. So what I did was I took a look at Voyager and took a look at the ones that were down the most, the ones that I actually have in my possession. Like, I think like Silo was down almost 10%. There were some other ones that I just don't own, like Dogecoin was down like almost 10%. And I just looked at the ones that I own already and say, okay, these are down so much in this dip. What do you want to do here? So what I'm going to do is I already bought, I bought 500 bucks worth of Ethereum. And the price was 2114. I bought Polkadot, 250 bucks worth of Polkadot at 1976. And I bought Voyager token, which was down 7.8% for the day at 2011 cents.  So for this one, instead of just buying, buying, buying, buying, and it's holding, holding, holding, holding, I'm going to buy and I'm going to sell. And I call this the buy the dip, sell the flip. And you can find this in the description of every one of my videos. There's a link. It's underneath strategies, along with the exit strategies. And I'm going to show you what I bought, the different ones and the dates, the price of what I bought at, which ended the one day change, how much I bought, and when I sell it and go from there. There's a couple of different ways to play this. I think for me, I think the best thing to do is try to, because I spent $1,000, try to get $1,000 back plus some. So if I can get $1,000 back, keep that cash for the next dip, but then acquire a little bit of cryptocurrency, I think it's a win-win. And I'm going to pull on my friend CJ from Michael Rebellion just to kind of go over some strategies of taking a look at the different technicals to when we can get out and go from there.  And this is just something different to do. All right. That's what's going on. Let's take a look at today's top story. So this was fascinating. I like Cardano. I like Ethereum. I just bought Ethereum. Ethereum is my second biggest hold, but I do like to see the inner workings of the top people and doesn't get much more top than Charles Hoskinson over at IOHK, co-founder of Cardano. And this is what's going on. So with Alonzo looming on their horizon, it's fair to say that there is a lot of optimism around Cardano. That's true, and there's so much optimism, it can blind you. And I think that's one of the reasons for this buy-the-dip, sell-the-flip type of thing, because I don't want it to get just too much ingrained into it. You need to make provisions. You need to make changes. And that's, I think, is a sign of intelligence, is changing direction every so often to see what works best. So it's worth exploring what would constitute a failure in Cardano's case. This is one of the major questions addressed by Charles Hoskinson on the latest episode of Lex Friedman. I will link that in the description. It's five hours. Two hours into it. Fascinating stuff. Here's what Charles says. If it, the project, continues to require the supervision of custodians, Cardano, in order for it to succeed, the system won't work. Custodians, it's supposed to be decentralized. It's supposed to be run democratically. And it's supposed to not just have a centralized figure. And that's the biggest thing, right? So if they can do that, which they're trying to do, I think it'll work out pretty well. And he's saying, but if we have to always step in and fix everything, that's not how it's supposed to run. He says, there's no guarantee that this will be sustainable. No guarantee the next step, the smart contract step, will achieve what we want. However, I will say this, they've already gone through with the Alonzo upgrade. They've already done a couple of smart contracts and they have worked. This is all in the test net, so don't get all worked up. But it looks like they're going to hit that August deadline or deadline. There's no guarantee the governance step will achieve what we want. Askinson also highlighted his wariness about the likelihood of Cardano evolving in the wrong direction, a direction symptomatic of a centralized dystopia, like the Chinese social credit system where a small group of people has control over who gets to use the system and how they get to use it.  There's just, there's so many, like there's like 20 different validators and that's it. And I think EOS is the same way, correct me comments, but I think there's not that many. And then with both the stake pools, we're looking at hundreds of hundreds of different stake pools that are out there on top of the fact that you have something like this in your deadless wallet. On the left hand side, if you click on the table, voting guy hand icon thing, you can start to vote on the different resolutions that are going on. And you do have to download the catalyst voting app, but that's right from the deadless wallet. Do not search for the catalyst voting app in Google. You'll probably get something wrong. It'll probably be a spam or a scammer type of thing. Go right to the deadless wallet, download that directly from IOHK, get it, then scan this, then get the app so you can vote on different things. And that's the whole point of what it's trying to do. Try to allow people to come in there and go, this is the direction we want to take Cardano as a decentralized community. And then this was one that concerns me. According to Hoskinson, Cardano has incredible evangelicalism, right? With a loyal community that believes in a mission of value. Such a community, and this is what he talks about, but this last sentence he did not say, such a community, however, runs the risk of becoming a cult or a religion. That was what Mike Novograt said, that deadless or that Cardano was a weird cult. And that's, we did a video about that. It doesn't really make, it is what it is. I like to call it a exuberant community. And some people will say that cults are bad words, but there's cults everywhere. There's cults in science. There's cults in finance. There's cults in sports. It is what it is, right? It depends on how everyone wants to say it. And then to finish up, he says, I hope they don't make the same mistake as Bitcoin. I hope is our community will be open, socratic and willing to entertain new ideas without adopting them and discard, discard ideas that have proven to be wrong. And that I think is the hardest thing right there. And that's the, the heart of the matter is when we get into our projects, we become very ingrained into them. We believe that it's the only project because we've done so much research and it's so hard to do research on thousands and thousands of projects. It's impossible. So when you put, I don't know, a hundred bucks, a thousand bucks, your life savings or whatever that you've done, not saying this is not investment advice, this is just investment opinion. When you put a lot of money into it, all of a sudden, you're like, this is the only thing that works and it's got to work because I put a lot of money into it. So it has to, but we have to take a step back and look at everything around us and go, is this going to be the one big thing? Now, I've taken a look at a lot of different projects on this channel. I think Cardano is going to do extremely well. Do I think it's the only one? No. No, I do not. I think there's going to, there's a lot of room for a lot of different players in this space, Ethereum being one, Cardano, Avalanche, Polkadot, Tezos, I mean a lot of different smart contracts, platforms, but this tribalism, it's really destroys us, I feel like because you have to understand it's only us against the world and there's not that many of us if you really look around as far as like crypto and digital assets. We are very early and I'll give you an example. Go out in the street, ask anybody about Bitcoin and Dogecoin. I used to just say Bitcoin but Dogecoin is so hot right now and everybody's like, I know what that is. But asking about Tezos and asking about Polkadot and asking about BTT and asking about, you know, whatever, I don't know what you're talking about. So we're super early. So when people, you know, start to, and they're going to attack us because it's going to change the world. We have to rally around each other and it's just like when somebody picks on your brother or your sister, you may not like your brother or sister too much over time but you have to stick up for them and that's just how I feel. So anyhow, let me know what you think of the comment section. Let's go on to our next piece. So Paraguay on the heels of El Salvador to unveil Bitcoin legislations next month. All right, good news. So Paraguay said to unveil a crypto bill on the back of Bitcoin's El Salvador thing. The South American country reels from a declining economy and ill-fated effects of dollar printing in the U.S. but officials are turning to Bitcoin to offset some of those side effects. Calitos Antonio Regela-Helman, a deputy of the nation and member of Congress in Paraguay wrote on Twitter, this is Paraguay in July we legislate. That sounds pretty good to me and that's a little tweet right there and then he handed this in June that officials were possibly working with PayPal, working with PayPal. Let me say that again. Hinton in June that officials were possibly working with PayPal, nothing confirmed on a Bitcoin related project for the country. Well now we know why Bitcoin or why we know why PayPal is getting everything because they want to take over the world. As I was saying a long time and this is of course, you know, in English we're going to translate this real quick is what the tweet says. As I was saying a long time ago, our country needs to advance hand in hand with a new generation the moment has come, our moment. This week we start with an important project to innovate Paraguay in front of the world and at the very end you can see hashtag Bitcoin, hashtag PayPal. So another great news of what is going on as far as like nation states moving to cryptocurrency because the dollar is just not working for them and I feel like there's going to be a big battle between what different countries believe is as a currency because that's what they say Bitcoin's going to be in legal tender as opposed to like America and Canada and Europe where like it's just property and I think there's going to be a battle but we'll see how it all depends on I think the world winners are us. Let me understand the comment section and let's move on to almost our last piece which is I found this not surprising so I'm just going to skip over it real quick but World Bank refused to help El Salvador make Bitcoin legal tender citing environmental and transparency issues. First of all I keep hearing about when I was just getting in the space I'm like World Bank and IMF and World Bank and IMF what do they do? Who are they? Are they the Illuminati? Anyhow so this is what the World Bank is. The World Bank is an international development organization owned by 187 countries. Its role is to reduce poverty by lending money to the governments of its poor members to improve their economies and to improve the standard living of the people. It was established in 1944 to help rebuild Europe and Japan after World War II and they're still around so good for them and then the IMF they pretty much just like you know set monetary policy and the IMF is an organization of 190 countries by the same working to foster global monetary cooperation secure financial stability facility international trade promote high employment and sustainable economic growth and reduce poverty around the world which is weird that they're not really even helping El Salvador to kind of just go well the environment really well you don't seem to have a big problem with everybody mining batteries and everybody using coal especially in China which I believe is one of the members and if you really want to you know crack down the environmental issues I think Bitcoin is one of your least concerns but whatever and sure so here's what it is while the government did approach us for assistance on Bitcoin this is not something the World Bank can support given the environmental blah blah blah on Wednesday the finance minister of El Salvador Alejandro Zeleja said the country has sought technical assistance from the World Bank to implement the law to use Bitcoin as legal tender that's pretty great uh Zeleja also said the international IMF is not against this is interesting El Salvador implementing Bitcoin as legal tender after he explained this country will not abandon the US dollar so that's a big thing as long as you're on board with US dollar and you're just kind of using the Bitcoin as a as a supplementary they're like cool that's fine which if that's what you got to do it's what you got to do Trojan horse it who cares right just let just get things going get the get the ball rolling and then do what you want to do later on states we gave our official position of the IMF we have been emphatic we are not replacing US dollar the finance minister said the IMF spokesperson said they are macroeconomic financial and legal issues with the Bitcoin law but they're still letting go forwards that's good meanwhile the Central American Bank for Economic Integration which I didn't know actually existed until a couple weeks ago which has 15 countries said it will provide technical assistance to help El Salvador implement Bitcoin as legal tender this is the big thing I think like in Central America they're looking out for Central America so like this the CABEI is the one that are really going to say let's do this because a lot of countries are going to go forward the IMF is like well you know we'll we'll let it go and of course the the global bank the world banks like no so again there will be a little bit of a fight but we're moving in the right direction I think I see these both as signs that is very bullish for Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies what I do not see as very bullish is this next story and this is really what concerns me the SEC leaves Bitcoin off crypto agenda what the heck is going on before I move on with this one this is the last story and then we'll take off but I do believe a lot of people SEC included a lot of different countries are looking at this Ripple case Ripple and XRP so if you don't think this is a big case this is a huge case and I think just like in law it's all set on precedent so if this comes out and there is a decision where it's like okay XRP is not a security and it's all okay and you just pay a little fine and off you go I think what's going to happen I think this is going to just fast track regulation I think this is why they left it off but I could be wrong let me know in the comment section but it's not on the agenda the official the office of the information and regulatory affairs released the Biden administration spring 2021 unified agenda of regulatory and deregulatory actions last week and some of the items the SEC will consider include disclosures related to climate risk corporate board diversity and beneficial ownership and swaps the SEC will also focus on rules relating to SPACs and short sale disclosure reform bitcoin and crypto are not a part of that which is weird because just like what it says here the chairman last month Gensler the chairman urged congress to pass crypto legislation to protect investors adding that crypto exchanges needed more regulation in addition the SEC caution investors about funds trading in bitcoin futures last week and that just makes no sense to me like if you have the commissioner going when you really regulate this let's just get some clarity and everybody knows we just move on it's not happening and again I hopefully that once we get this this dispute this lawsuit taken care of with XRP I think it'll just give it a precedent and we'll kind of move forward okay well this is what we saw in this case we can kind of apply this for other things and off we go I personally believe Ripple smart they got a lot of smart people they've hired a lot of smart people and they're just going to say look let's just pay a fine let's just go move on with our lives you guys get money which is what you want anyhow we can keep going and then everybody's happy let me that's what I think's gonna happen anyhow let me just think of the comment section that'll be interesting one and that's it for today so first of all if you made this far thanks I appreciate it give it a thumbs up you found some value in the video consider subscribing a lot of people talk about our time sensitive here over on Dan clips which is our second channel we go over more things such as like advancements and cryptocurrency and different projects we just reviewed silo which to me is like it's like WhatsApp and Venmo and Filecoin all rolled into a decentralized app you can use right now and I have it on my phone and I use it which is pretty cool so you can check that out later when the guys give me the okay and then lastly don't forget to check out the buy the dip sell the flip spreadsheet we'll see how we go but that's my that's my thinking so anyhow thanks for watching I appreciate it see you on the next one