Everybody forced here up in 2022 Star Wars master or copy eight bucks case number 16 ran a mini box style I'll open the case just a moment here. There's gonna be four in the front stack top to bottom and four in the back top to bottom as well How will rip as we'll go one box one will have mini boxes one two three and four kind of across like that Second box will have five six seven and eight so on and so forth. Then we'll go to the back stack and then go Top box down so open make sure they're all facing forward because that's what makes sense here And then I will random assign everybody a number and we'll keep going here We use this is the front obviously they're facing the other ways. We'll flip them around face all facing all facing us now So the top box here one two three and four mini boxes five six seven eight so on and so forth That's how we're gonna do it. So you know what number Switch, okay. Now. Let's randomize to assign the numbers. Good luck everybody. Good luck There's a five and a one we'll go six times here six times five and one here legal. This is what the car to look like right here It's actually a photo on the there's a photo on the checklist of it. Okay six times names first one two three four five and six Felix down to Chris V and then six times on the mini boxes here One two three four five and six Four down to 30 drive nice out man. I've been to 25. That's a good hit Good hit All right Felix with four Ryan s 16 Felix six Stephen H2 Adrian C with 31 Francis D 30 Chris V 19 and 28 Dan M1 Francis D 27 and 9 Michael J 20 JD with 18 Felix with 23 Jennifer Y 5 JD with 22 Chris V 17 paid an H 25 Michael J 7 Felix with 12 Jennifer Y 8 Arturo with 14 Ryan s 11 Matt f 26 Socrates 13 Matthew L 15 Jeremy s 24 Arturo with 21 Jennifer 3 Matthew L 29 Chris V with 32 and 30 All right results are posted I'm gonna sort those numerically here's a link you guys to check it out See which mini box you got again. I'll call out who's mini boxes who's as we go along as well So don't have to do that if you don't want to 12 top throne black spots to go tonight 25 masterwork spots guys. Let's get sketchy right here. Let's get sketchy You all know what I mean I'm feeling like I said earlier. I'm feeling a big auto tonight. So let's make it happen Let's make it happen for somebody here or in W. Got it or in W So one two three and four Tip is not sharp Yeah, I'm not tossing out or anything. All right number one for Dan you're gonna buy it off him for 500 bucks illegal Maybe they'll sell the redeemed the redeemed card to you for that much Just the just the redemption itself Good luck One Dan will be one quote Green and the twins out of 99 Madison Morgan Elspeth foil grandma off Tarkin that's out of two ninety-nine rainbow foil And a relic it's Ray a Ray Sourced fabric relic Jackets 20 of 50 solid first box there Number two for Steven H. I Think nothing that gives angels you have to press too hard and then this thing is Thing is thick the emperor there Podes amber on the blue Arrow and Luke and a gin or so radar screen relic To 99 nice gin or so number three is four Jennifer Jennifer why Come on. We need a big auto here On hella Vila sketch will be fun, too If I don't become deceased first seek 3PO in the blue base there would mall auto Sam Whitmer as the voice of mall three of ten. That's what I'm talking about right there Congrats Jennifer Mall auto wood cart three of ten Sam Whitmer Vidva That's going into a mag that is filthy There we go. Number four for Felix here should be another auto. I think Sketch or something like another auto Boba blue bale Mega grievous and an axe woes auto Simon Castaneda. He says axe woes Yeah, he's pretty upset Pretty upset in the animated series any way series gets dark when all shows up. All right, five six seven and eight Number five is for Jennifer Sean's hair is worth more than the Otani card What happened? I think if that was true Sean wouldn't be here right now They're saying your hair is a worthy Otani card. They were joking about like spying a lock of hair or something They're being creepy. I'll say that We'll do come the on the blue there and and a size venture saw that's pretty cool It's gonna be Nika Futterman 32 a 50 on the foil auto Sajj Ventress number six is Felix Imperial guard there blue is Everellios a foil of some Jawas there to 299 And a wrecker auto deep Bradley Baker. It's always good to get a deep Bradley auto Certain characters go for quite a bit on the deep Bradley like if you get like an echo deep Bradley auto Yeah, that's good stuff. That's a good one too, but they go crazy They sell well, they always sell well, too It's weird you release after release after release, but masterwork up a notch up a notch Michael J One number seven Obi-Wan quotes. That's a cure on the blue Jar Jar Poe and a relic of gin or so sourced fabric relic Gin or so poncho and number eight is for Jennifer again It's wicked there Luke Skywalker on the blue And the hit in this one is a Vader commemorative stamp Remember to stamp Darth Vader. Okay, we haven't seen a sketch yet. So probably sketch in this box Got to get sketchy maybe so numbers uh Nine through twelve here better be on the lookout but nine Vader there that's Kato little conics to 50 on the purple foil here is Boba to two ninety-nine rainbow foil and The medallion right? Yeah, it's the Palpatine the oh cheese blade Palpatine tools and technology medallion for ten Francis D again a Jar Jar and the Jar Jar auto do pretty well, too Francis back to back here There's our first sketch coming up Francis gets our first sketch of the case Only a sith deals in absolutes That is blue R2 color match That's between stand-up wrecker and the sketch is Grogu By Veronica Smith, I would say that is sick Grogu big-time sketch. Congrats Francis That's really freaking awesome That is awesome.  I don't think we're breaking on Christmas Eve. It's actually a discussion about that earlier and Unless rich does them which I don't think is gonna happen at all We're not breaking Christmas Eve How the whole lot of releases next week's like flawless collegiate football and like the cup Quick stuff green a wrecker out of 99 Foil on solo out of 299 rainbow foil the BB-8 auto BB-8 Brian herring puppeteer auto never admit it, but he knows it Yeah, he'll never admit it Alright, so now we're on what 13 through 16 alright 13 is Socrates So great. Good luck. So great as Sean says Yeah, so we'll break the the 23rd and then we'll break again 26 yeah Blue Django Fett Rainbow foil of Django Fett to do an eye and a printing plate Django Fett rainbow foil to 299 and the printing plate is that's pretty cool stormtrooper Yeah, one of one stormtrooper printing plate go Socrates nice card Looks kind of cool with like a photo negative of it all not quite for a day. We're like that effect 14 Arturo Said our DM looks like Jar Jar was DM something something manager 14 here you got CAD Bodie Rook on the blue foil of IG 88 rainbow foil IG 88 299 and a Reva auto blue foil 7 of 99 most syndrome as a Reva very nice hit There you go Arturo That's a very nice hit 15 Matthew L Good master box go in here, but the printing plate so far the Reva is really nice I'm pretty I know she doesn't have a ton about it. I think she sells pretty well, though I should have known that shorts Green jinner sort of 99 and an auto of Sabine Ren TS their car as Sabine Ren for you Matthew All right, and 16 is for Ryan S. He's busy Blue the twins that's what oh, sorry Got an auto and a relic it looks like Lux Bon Terry autograph Lux Bon Terry Jason Spesak and The armor or relic number to 25 the belt I think sample the one of one of this nice one Ryan good box an auto and a relic All right moving on to the second half here, so 17 through 20 in this one One more case this later guys. She's a nice auto zoom we've seen one sketch so far could get sketch heavy in the second Part here. It's one of every 10 mini boxes Holy cow chrome black is on a five still 25 on masterwork guys That's so it's basically gonna be that decides the full sellout promo So if you sell out the last masterwork 76 a spot it is the only break tonight where you are guaranteed something Get a mini box per spot on a lot of guarantees and breaking But gonna get one of these if you join which has a hit inside of it Um 17 Chris V. Thanks for joining Ryan. Yeah, man masterwork is always fun From the watch from the rib when the beat of a break of right green the 99 tech a Mandalorian stamp the 10 5 of 10 commemorative Mandalorian stamp for Chris V Mini box 17 nice That's cool 18 JD Redo purple R2 that R2 is gonna be at a 50. Yep to a 50 To his jersey number for R2 D2 I think Yeager, Krennic, and they a lots Razi auto Claire Grant night to 99 Lots Razi Then a raspberry like a it's like a raffle kind of That's the word for now I guess because raffle is gambling 19 Chris V. That's weird. Maybe he's lurking. Maybe he's lurking Steve. How long you been watching? Is that really us on the blue a Captain Carson Tiva Paul Sonny Hung Lee on the autograph Carson Tiva for your Chris V and 20 is for Michael J That's up to you strive You want to risk it and join black or do you want to get something? That's kind of a little safer I guess nothing super safe obviously still buying a break spot, but looks like a walker blue a Cursant in canvas cool. Cursant in 19 to 25. It's my guy right there. There's some peeling on this one I'm gonna send a box and wrapper Cursant it's like right there and a Claire Grant auto as lots Razi You want to twice close enough for government work, right? Oh Okay 21 through 24 in the next box. How we doing Steve? We're just talking about you actually yeah, it's so crazy. We're like, where's no view son said, where's no views man? Where's no views man? And then bing all right about 21 a 1 picky string like maybe I'm hoping it one time. It's gonna be one of those booklet autos one time. It's gonna be it's gonna be awesome Carson Tiva on the blue and Screen relic of cheer it in way radar screen relic Cheer it in way to 99 22 is for JD. I was funny. We're talking. It was like literal like five minutes ago If he's got six cents, whoa, what is that? That's a sketch. That's a sketch. I'll tell you what that's a sketch Agent tyranny on the blue First up though, you got a Kylo Ren Stamp relic autograph number two three of three Adam driver huge hit for JD He only has a handful of autos in this another relic autos Kylo Ren stamp relic auto three of three big card And you're getting a sketch And you're getting a sketch Jesus look at that and a la Sakura sketch card That gold will frame their Jenna McGrath Good Lord a scratch JD And I didn't get a whole lot better than that. That's that's that's for sure. Here's that Kylo again before we get it magged Very nice Adam driver stamp relic auto Hell yeah, man Alright Felix at 23 Yeah, what that's the best mini box I've ever seen so I think All right, keep it going here keep it going here That is nice a red mace 25 to 25 red mace May foil a fennec fennec foil. There's some peeling on the fennec I'll get a box wrapper out with you Felix and a bartender foil auto out of 50. It's Alan graph is bartender All right, and 24 Jeremy Jeremy s I think you'll need an account and you'll want to send an email here One of those two emails of work preferably the lane at Leighton sports cards one, but thank you VJ appreciate it Yeah, we'll get you in touch with Lane who runs the consignment on our on our end of things See 3PO in the blue Bail l337 imperial comms officer Katie O'Brien autograph for Jeremy and 24 Okay, last couple boxes so 25 through 28 in this box 25 Peyton, I did say I thought we're gonna pull a big auto tonight. We did Star Wars and there's still two cases left. We can still we can still get more chewy Fifth brother on the blue and auto Saw Gerrera animated Saw Gerrera's Andrew Cachino You to pull a force with a Gerroto 26 Matt F Yeah, legal illegal extender spam just in chat Has my phone number and my email address. That's just scary. That's just scary. All right. Good luck Matt a green is gonna be quill Quill 12 and 99 and An auto is dr. Pershing. Oh meet up Tahi number to 99 on the blue foil Good hit there Matt Same building everything 27 years for Francis D. Thickey Probably another screen relic One of these days is gonna be a book though. These days One of these days one of these days Green the 99 Zory bliss right our screen relic of Mon Mothma 28 Chris V. There's V has a few with the answer. Now to get sketchy for Chris number 28 here One there Chewbacca on the blue a A foil of Boba nice Boba to 299 rainbow foil and The sketch is that's pretty cool. Is that I'm guessing that's Mon Mothma Joey Mason on the artist sick there. It looks like Mon Mothma like a tunic and everything That's pretty sweet. There you go Chris last hobby box Good luck all all right 29 Matthew L. Yeah, it's a little different than some of the other sketches I kind of like it like that. It's like an animated sketch just about Okay, 29 Matthew L. Good luck We're gonna 29 Matthew L here Blue Quinlan Voss and an auto nice. It's a canvas BB eight. That's a good hit 19 of 25 BB eight canvas. I see it Lane Lane. I say Yeah, you should get more. That's what I say. I Would probably Ask first, but I don't see why not Nice BB eight canvas 19 of 25 Or just give like a heads up at least there's not a whole lot of releases coming up So I think so a loose is but I don't think it's I Don't know. I'm totally fine. We getting Drake made though number 30 here Chris V your Santin R2-D2 on the blue a Nice foil rainbow foil of Darth Vader. Heck. Yeah, glad to hear it Lane and a Twanway auto as as Raina Owen has twanway Yeah, I showed Lane. I showed Lane in the breaker chat. I don't know if you've seen it yet 31 Adrian C One more sketch here for one of the last two. Yeah, we're gonna on the blue. Oh That's pretty cool. Moth Gideon on the medallion here the darksaber medallion 80 of 99 and 32 Chris V last mini box sketch or something That is a sketch dude. That is that's gonna be pretty wild. It's like on the edges. It's colored too. Okay. All right Grievous purple 17 to 50. What is this about to be? Oh? Dude a b1 battle droid. That is a really good sketch Genomograph again Super nice sketch and it's awesome dude. That looks great Feel like they're pulling dynamite I spent like two hours shadowing your upper upper lip or whatever he says on the sketch And it looks not good That's just that's such a cool sketch Landed you see the breaker chat. Is that a Liger? Guys handle that'll do it. We're moving on now to number 17


The Porfuri involves a number of role-players, which you would have seen today. The very first person to perform a visible and audible act is the Kaikranga, so the lady who delivered a call of welcome, which was responded to, usually by another lady, but in some situations a man who will respond with what's known as a wairia. The people come in, there's then a prayer that's delivered, a very brief prayer, and the oratory starts, the whai kōrero starts, the speeches, if you like. Echoing again the sentiments which were echoed in the Kaikranga, that of welcome and of peace and of grace. I think it's a really nice way to welcome new students and make them feel part of a family. I have never really been to a marae, so it was a very nice new cultural experience of music. Yeah, it was interesting, I haven't been to one before, and the food afterwards as well. I haven't been to one before either, so it's a very interesting experience. My favourite part of Orientation Day is probably the uni guides, they're real helpful. Probably meeting all the new students and making new contacts and getting to know everyone and helping them to settle in. Getting to meet new people and getting to know different people are doing different subjects. I've learnt where everything was, I was completely lost before. It felt like a massive family being welcomed into the university. I owe it's just a whole great day of fun, meeting new people, helping people settle in. The university is a huge place, so the program here is a great way to meet new friends and new people.


Before Remy Malick appeared on 24 as well as Steven Spielberg produced mini-series The Pacific, eventually starring as the lead on Mr. Robot. Before Remy Malick amassed a giant social media following with over 600,000 followers on Twitter as well as 2.7 million on Instagram at the time of this recording. Before Remy was a talk show regular even taking selfies with Ellen DeGeneres. Before Remy Malick replaced Sasha Baron Cohen as Freddie Mercury in the Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody earning him his first Academy Award. Before Remy fell right off the Oscar stage after giving his acceptance speech, people nearby rushed to help him up, EMTs were even called to the scene. Thankfully the 37 year old actor was seemingly cleared. Once upon a time Remy Malick was working as a pizza delivery man in Los Angeles. He was also living in a cramped two bedroom apartment but he would do whatever he could to make it. This included placing his headshots and resume into envelopes and he would tape them to the bottom of each pizza box he would deliver. This is just one of the many crazy stories actors have from their days of desperation. But for most thespians, winning an Oscar isn't even a slight possibility. Most are lucky to get a paying job. While Remy Malick is definitely an exception. Landing his first role on Gilmore Girls back in 2004, the LA native moved on to film roles in Night of the Museum, Battleship, Twilight, The Master and more. His TV roles in The War at home in 2004 were notable but it was his performances staff who in the Pacific showed the world that this was an actor to look out for. Receiving a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the University of Evansville in 2003, Remy had been preparing for the moment when he would finally get his big break. This came when he was cast in 2015 as computer hacker Elliot Ellerson on Mr. Robot. For this he snagged a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series. While his performance on the show has been acclaimed, nobody was prepared for the impact he would have when he took on the role of Freddie Mercury in Bohemia of Rhapsody. However, it's not just the actor's wins that are an interesting part of his legacy. You won't believe some of the roles he was actually in the running for. Roles he was sometimes passed on because of his Middle Eastern heritage. Remy said that there were many auditions starting out where he knew he'd be rejected for reasons beyond his acting ability. As a result, he was forced to play several stereotypical roles. It may or may not have been this factor that cost him a lead part on a certain gangster HBO show. Either way, that didn't stop him from getting a fateful meeting with two of Hollywood's biggest legends. What's going on guys? It's your boy Michael McCrudden documenting the life and career of Remy Malick prior to fame. Here for you of course on Before They Were Famous. Then we're dropping this video here on my second channel because we've been doing a little bit of A-List Hollywooders over here. A-List Hollywoodverse. That's not even a real word. Maybe that's why this is on my second channel. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. We got a lot to get through. This is a really fantastic story. We also recently dropped one on Bradley Cooper. Be sure to check that out. Now let's get into Remy Malick. Excuse me for the... That's why I didn't make it into Hollywood. You know, it's not perfect. Be sure to subscribe and hit that bell. Boom! At first I thought I must be sick and so I started to check my pulse. And that's when I noticed the piece of scout. Remy Saeed Malick was born on May 12th, 1981 in Los Angeles, California. He and his twin brother Sammy, they were born to Father Saeed, an insurance salesman and Nelly an accountant. Both of Remy's parents, they hail from Cairo, Egypt. His father worked as a tour guide in the city and wished to come to the United States after doing business with American tourists. Because mother at the time, she was not into the idea of leaving her birthplace and commenting on her journey Remy has stated. She did not want to leave. She had family and friends right next door and it was hard to give that up for a city like LA. That can sometimes feel a strange from neighborhood to neighborhood. She took some convincing but the couple eventually made the move. They settled in Sherman Oaks, a district in the San Fernando Valley where they first gave birth to Remy's older sister Yasmin. The actor is a twin brother and they have an interesting relationship. Knowing that Remy has been more than happy to discuss over the years. Sammy has been a constant supporter of his brother's career so it must be nice having a twin. One particular story from their younger years that Remy has shared on numerous talk shows is when Sammy needed to learn a Greek monologue, something Remy was studying as an aspiring actor. What was at stake? Well, Sammy needed to recite the monologue in class in order to complete his degree. He did what any responsible student would do. He got his twin brother to go in there posing as him and to recite the monologue. Who wouldn't do it? Well it seemed to be going well but his teacher had her doubts. Remy and his siblings were brought up to honor and appreciate their Egyptian heritage. His father would sometimes wake him up in the middle of the night to talk on the phone with his relatives half way across the globe. This helped him work on his Arabic. During the childhood of immigrants put Remy at odds with the kids at school. Many of his classmates would tease him and mispronounce his name. The cultural differences at the Malik family were visible to American kids. The sandwiches he brought to school are apparently quite the sight to fellow students in the cafeteria. The immigrant mentality was always present in the Malik household. Remy's parents wanted their children to be doctors and lawyers as this was their idea of success in America. Remy lived a fairly sheltered life in Sherman Oaks which gave him a very limited perspective of his future possibilities. For someone with such easy access to Hollywood he surprisingly didn't want to be an actor right away. Reflecting on his childhood he stated, I never thought about being an actor when I was a kid. I lived in the valley and I don't think I ever went over the hill into Hollywood or Beverly Hills until I was in high school. I didn't even know what existed as far as I was concerned. It was the valley, Sherman Oaks, Van Nuys. That's all I knew. Remy would spend much of his time as a kid creating characters with peculiar voices. Attending Notre Dame High School in Sherman Oaks, Remy was in the same year as actress Rachel Billson as well as one year above Kirsten Dunst. He and Kirsten performed together in musical theater class at Notre Dame High. During a variety segment years later when the two actors interviewed one another, Remy recalled first seeing Kirsten playing the piano and he fell in love with her talent. In another interview, he went on to admit, We are still friends, yeah used to have a little crush on her. You have a crush or you have a crush? Of course to this day, Notre Dame High School is vocal in their pride for both actors. When the two got nominated for Golden Globes in 2016, the school even congratulated them on their Facebook page. While Remy was interested in acting, he didn't always see that as a feasible career. Following his parents' wishes of choosing a career as a lawyer, he found himself on the debating team. Realizing that he had trouble forming an argument, his teacher told him that he was better at dramatic interpretation. She convinced him to perform a one-man show called Zoom in and The Sign. Having to play with family in the crowd, well he felt that acting was the right choice for him. Talking about his experience on stage, well Remy has stated, I still love being on stage. There's a thrill to it that never goes away. It always feels different and the response you get from the audience is just so visceral. With film and TV, you have to wait to see what people think and right there, that connection with an audience is like nothing else. Remy's first ever audition was for a play in high school called The Miracle Worker. He graduated from Notre Dame in 1999, moving on to the University of Evansville, Indiana where he would study theater. After college in 2003, Remy moved back to Los Angeles where he would give professional acting a go. Living in a small cramped apartment, he took up work as a pizza delivery guy. Remember how I said he'd deliver resumes with the pizzas? Well, he actually ended up getting an audition out of it. In 2004, he landed his first TV role as Andy on Gilmore Girls and this may have been one of his more interesting roles starting out as he would later be typecast as one-dimensional Middle Eastern stereotypes. This included a pharaoh in Night at the Museum and even a terrorist in the show 24.  No more. This is not how I want it. Remy was determined to prove to big time Hollywood casting agents that he could play more than just racial stereotypes. Being cast up for the role of Jimmy Darmady and HBO's Boardwalk Empire, well he received a callback from another audition he did. Although this was no ordinary callback, the person on the other line was Tom Hanks. The actor told Remy that he would love him for the role of snafu on the World War II mini-series, which was known, of course, as the Pacific.  Entering the audition room, he noticed another familiar face behind the camera. Remy eventually landed the role and shooting the series in Australia, the actor was no longer being typecast. This was finally a part he could sink his teeth into. Putting on the uniform of a World War II Marine during the Battle of the Pacific, while Remy's performance as snafu is one he considers his breakthrough role. But of course, it was only the beginning. As for the rest of the story, we're going to have to go and find it elsewhere because this is Before They Were Famous. My name's Michael McCrudden, we make all sorts of celebrity bios here for you on this channel, so let us know who you want us to document next in the comments


What's going on today is the fourth annual Project Homeless Connect event and as you can see we've got a lot of folks here already. Our goal was to have 300 persons who are experiencing homelessness here today to be connected to social and medical services that they may have need of to help them escape their homelessness. So we've got 51 providers here, we've got a lot of volunteers here giving their time to help people find the services they need to be connected with. And of course First Presbyterian Church has been so gracious both last year and again this year to host the event for us. It still says we've got a job to do. As long as we have folks without homes then they're still part of the Fort Worth family and we still have a responsibility to give them an opportunity to get a restart. I think homelessness is being addressed in our city, is being addressed in a responsible way through directions home. The more people we can remove from the condition of homelessness, the fewer people that are going to show up in our emergency rooms for medical care, the fewer 911 calls are going to be made for given emergencies and it's going to cost the taxpayers less in the long run. It's just a wonderful thing for folks to come together and you know these services are out in the community but so often if you don't have transportation it's kind of hard to get from here to there and so it's kind of a one day one stop place where they can get connected with a variety of services so it's a wonderful opportunity for us as a city and as providers to come together and provide this kind of event for folks.


Good morning, my name is Brent Whitford. I'm a PhD student at the University at Buffalo Effective last week, so brand new to the program. Thank you all for coming out, and I hope that you enjoy the presentation My talk today will focus a little bit on the Balkan Peninsula, but more specifically on the Strumer River Valley The Strumer River Valley is located in southwest Bulgaria and northern Greece It extends 415 kilometers from north to south and effectively transects both the Mediterranean and temperate climatic and vegetational zones As one of the earliest regions settled by farming communities During the Neolithic period of Southeast Europe at around 6200 BC It represents a transitional area in which the first agricultural communities may have adapted to more temperate environmental conditions Such adaptations, it's been argued, preceded the expansion of early agricultural practices further north into continental-type climates So in this paper, I will elaborate on the role of the Strumer River Valley as such a probable transition zone during the early Neolithic period of Southeast Europe and Specifically, I'll assess its potential to stimulate adaptation and transmission As early as the late 1960s It was recognized by Nandrists that the Strumer River Valley played a particularly important role in the advance of Neolithic lifeways From the Aegean to temperate Europe and more recently It's been increasingly hypothesized that the transitional ecological characteristics of the Strumer River Valley Served as a stimulant to adaptation and transmission However, before such a hypothesis can be sustained The ecological characteristics of the Strumer River Valley must first be compared with that of the neighboring regions In order to assess whether adaptations derived from settlement in the Strumer River Valley could have in fact been transmitted to other regions With little to no adaptive difficulty So all regions having similar ecological characteristics with the Neolithic niche of the Strumer River Valley May then be interpreted as suitable locations from which to exploit related adaptations And thereafter evaluated against the cultural evidence on the Neolithic process of Southeast Europe more generally So in order to do this So in order to compare the ecological characteristics of early Neolithic settlement in the Strumer Valley with that of Southeast Europe as a whole I use an approach based on species distribution modeling Maximum entropy species distribution modeling or Maxent for short lends itself quite well to such tasks Essentially the Maxent algorithm Quantitatively identifies the impact and relative influence of different ecological factors over the determination of settlement locations The output of the Maxent procedure consists of a logistic habitat suitability grid ranked in percentage that is graphically projected onto the study region Those areas having a habitat suitability score of greater than zero percent Can then be interpreted as inclusive within the ecological niche of settlement distribution further excuse me Furthermore Maxent also incorporates functions that serve to model the potential distribution of a population Beyond its current known boundaries So by first training the model according to the specific boundaries of a known settlement distribution Maxent can subsequently project the results across a wider region and effectively identify all areas having similar ecological characteristics It then follows that those areas having similar ecological Characteristics should be suitable locations to which the original population may be transmitted while facing little to no adaptive difficulty I therefore train the model using only the characteristics of early Neolithic settlement in the Strumer River Valley and Subsequently project these results to the whole of Southeast Europe To verify whether there are any similarities All right, so in order to produce a Maxent model You need two things the first is a data set consisting of the locations of archaeological settlements And the second is a data set consisting of ecological variables that represent the study region Regarding the locations of early Neolithic settlements the early Neolithic period is confidently attested at 33 Archaeological sites in the Strumer River Valley. I retrieved the precise coordinates of each of these sites based on a rigorous review of published maps and Archaeological site registry is located within the relevant regional museums Regarding the ecological variables. I started I selected 10 climate and terrain variables in order to represent the ecological setting of Southeast Europe In short these consist of elevation above sea level terrain slope topographic ruggedness index Topographic wetness index taxonomic soil type mean annual temperature temperature annual range temperature seasonality precipitation seasonality and annual precipitation Present day values were selected as they closely approximate the conditions of the region post 6200 BC Furthermore, I selected these particular variables because of their straightforward affiliation with regards to their non-mediating effects on The composition of domestic plant and animal assemblages as well as for their relevance with regard to the suitable placement of sedentary agricultural settlements a Second step in the data selection procedure involves verifying for instances of statistical Colinearity between the ecological variables So as not the bias the model in favor of collinearly related sets You can think of this as elevation above sea level Typically is correlated with temperature. So like the higher you go the colder it gets Usually in this case the two variables vary in a linear way and if you include them both in your model You're going to bias you're going to favor those collinear sets So first you should check for statistical collinearity and Remove such variables So all continuous ecological variables were subjected to Pearson's test for Collinearity one half of each pair presenting an r-square value greater or equal to 0.8 That's a fancy way of saying that they were collinear was removed I prioritized the removal of variables that were found collinear in more than one instance and In this case soil type was the only variable excluded from the test because it's represented as categorical rather than continuous and Therefore can't be collinear in the Luke Euclidean space So so following the results of Pearson's tests of the original 10 that I selected six remained These are slope Topographic wetness index annual mean temperature temperature annual range Precipitation seasonality and soil type in order to assess the influence of the ecological setting on determining the locations of archaeological Settlements the software max and randomly samples background points from across the study region and compares their values against that of the Occurrence points or the locations of archaeological settlements Considering that my goal is to generate a habitat suitability grid based only on the distribution of settlements in the struma valley I Produced what's called a bias grid in order to isolate the struma valley and a small portion of the surrounding regions Which accounted for a total of 18,000 square kilometers That's the small bounding box you can see on the screen is the bias grid So this ladder bias grid serves to restrict the location or pardon me the selection of background points to within that bounding box Although the software recommends sampling 10,000 Pseudo absences from background considering that my added a regular relatively small sample size of archaeological settlements And that the bounding boxes also doesn't cover a very big area I chose to reduce the sampling to 1000 background points to avoid excessive model overfit The Maxent modeling software also allows for the adjustment of additional parameters that can impact model performance In order to aid with the selection of appropriate modeling parameters muskarela at all developed an E and Pardon me the E and M eval package for our studio By running the E and M evaluation function that's included in the E and M eval package. It's very difficult to say The Maxent model is run across Pardon me each possible combination of modeling parameters and provides evaluation metrics pertaining to overall model performance test and training performance as well as on test point omission rates, so The combination of parameters yielding the lowest omission rates and Mean difference in model performance paired with the highest overall model performance should then be selected for producing the final model In this case, I selected the combination of linear quadratic hinge and product feature classes at a regularization multiplier of 2.5 in accordance with the results of the E and M evaluation procedure So the resulting habitat suitability grid provides some valuable insights into the ecological characteristics of early Neolithic settlement in the Strummer River Valley That can thereafter be evaluated more widely in terms of its potential for adaptation and transmission during the Neolithic process of Southeast Europe High habitat suitability values are driven by a moderate to high topographic wetness index a moderate contrast and precipitation seasonality a high temperature annual range for settlement on soils of the Louvysol, Fluvisol and Vertisol types for settlement on flat terrains and in regions having a moderate mean annual temperature When taken in unison the characteristics of early Neolithic settlement in the Strummer Valley Therefore indicate a settlement distribution that is primary primarily defined by a temperate continental type climate and mediated by topographic and soil type considerations Therefore the ecological characteristics of early Neolithic settlement in the Strummer River Valley Strongly suggests that adaptation to more temperate climates and to harsher seasonal conditions had either already begun And or was fully developed by the time that early agricultural practices spread throughout the valley Here I need your help a bit I rely on your knowledge of the geography of Southeast Europe to more or less identify the different countries in this In this figure, of course, I'm willing to discuss during the discussion period if you have any questions anyhow So furthermore the ecological characteristics when projected to the whole of Southeast Europe are found to share a great deal of similarities with many of the neighboring regions Considering the the entire extent of the habitat suitability grid so those areas with a greater than zero percent habitat suitability regions with a comparable ecological setting include Central and West Greek Macedonia Bulgaria the Republic of Macedonia Kosovo Serbia the vast majority of Hungary the continental regions of Slovenia Croatia Bosnia and Herzegovina Montenegro and Albania as well as the extreme West and Southeast of Romania Basically everywhere that isn't blue on the figure in each of the latter cases the only exceptions are the high reaches of the Alpine regions It should be noted that the habitat suitability grid also encompasses some minor portions of Austria and Italy and Appears to continue to the Northeast into Moldova and the Ukraine although the latter regions were not fully included within the boundaries of the study area and Thus cannot be properly assessed In total the habitat suitability grid is distributed over 37 percent so over one-third of the ecological variability present in the whole of Southeast Europe Indicating that early agricultural practices could have generally been transmitted to a wide range of areas from the Strummer River Valley with little to no adaptive difficulty Regarding now the areas in blue or those having zero percent probability for settlement the whole of Greece Excluding only central and West Creek Macedonia is found to share no strong similarities with the distribution of settlement in the Strummer Valley The latter is significant considering that central Greece was the first region of continental Europe to have been settled by early agriculture Communities and therefore indicates that a period of significant adaptation to more temperate conditions must have indeed taken place elsewhere Furthermore the exclusion of East Greek Macedonia and Greek race I suppose this part here There's some interesting implications when one considers that the early Neolithic period has yet to be confidently identified in either of these regions Also, the exclusion of the Eastern Adriatic lend some support to the hypothesis that ecological factors Distinguished in the other neolithicization process from that of temperate Europe which there is characterized by the impressive complex I'm going to speed up a bit because I was just given a two-minute warning, but in general that whole distribution Coincides with the distribution of what's called the volcano Anatolian type white on red painted ceramics So essentially the hallmark of the Neolithic of Southeast Europe I'd like to take a moment however and talk about the areas that only have a 50 percent suitability or more and to summarize basically what that means is When we look at a more refined distribution or the stronger niche characteristics of the Strummer Valley It coincides mostly with the areas that we know as the starchable complex to the west of the Strummer Valley and Of the Kremikovci-Karanovo one complex to the east The only exception here is the region of Dobrogya and Romania which to date has not yielded any evidence of early Neolithic settlement to my knowledge So what that means to me is that rather than a north-south conduit the Strummer Valley rather Was more of an east-west sort of transmitter during Southeast The Neolithicization process of Southeast Europe And that changes really the discussion of what people normally say that it's a that it was a north-south conduit and so on so forth most interesting is the the complete Absence or exclusion of the regions of the Kouros and Krish culture and Hungary and Romania Which typically are taken as coinciding within a larger archaeological complex called the starchable Kouros Krish In this case you can see that ecological factors more or less Strongly distinguished between the three and that maybe we should start thinking of them in in different terms in terms of the temperate So in conclusion the ecological Characteristics of early Neolithic settlement in the Strummer River Valley share a great deal of affinity with that of temperate Southeast Europe as a whole thereby supporting the hypothesis that the Strummer Valley could have served as a region of adaptation and transmission during the early Neolithic period Though in this case no more or no less than many of the other regions It is significant that the ecological characteristics of the Strummer Valley and Encompass almost all of the regions in which the earliest pottery of the Balkano Anatolian type is distributed However, the more refined hypothesis that the Strummer Valley was well positioned to stimulate the spread of early agricultural practices northward Is here tentatively undermined When one considers only those regions having a habitat suitability score of greater than 50 percent the Strummer Valley rather shares a greater affinity with the Distribution of starchable and Kamikochi kind of a one-type sites thereby suggesting that the Strummer Valley served primarily as an east-west conduit of adaptation and transmission rather than northward Thank you


Thank you Cornelia, and it's a pleasure to be here today to discuss such an important issue facing financial markets. As Cornelia said, I'll just briefly discuss some of the steps that people can take to start to prepare for transition as set out in the global iBOR benchmark survey. A short introduction to ICMA before I begin, so we are a trade association promoting resilient, well functioning, international and globally coherent cross-border debt securities markets. We have members including private and public sector issuers, financial intermediaries, asset managers, other investors, capital market infrastructure providers, central banks, law firms and others worldwide. We've been focusing on benchmark reform and transition for many, many years now. We're pleased to be a non-voting member of the working group on euro risk-free rates, and we're also participating in the working groups in the UK and the Swiss area and staying in touch with our members worldwide as you might expect. So it's clear from the presentations we've heard today and previous remarks that there is a need for all market participants to prepare for benchmark transition. This view has also been expressed by regulators in the US and the UK and elsewhere in the context of LIBOR. Benchmark transition will therefore involve a global effort across multiple jurisdictions, currencies and products. It's going to be quite a challenge, and we all have a part to play in this transition. It's very important that market participants inform themselves of the various issues and start to prepare, and it's a great step that you're all here today. So in June this year, ISDA, AFME, SIFMA, SIFMA AMG and ICMA published an IBOR global benchmark transition report with the help of EY. The report is publicly available on all of our websites and I do encourage you to read it along with the transition roadmap that was published just before the report. So the report contains information obtained from a survey of buy and sell side institutions in the cash and derivatives markets, both wholesale and retail, financial entities, corporate entities, other end users, infrastructure providers and law firms, so it's pretty broad ranging. It was intended to gauge the state of market readiness and identify the challenges and potential solutions for an orderly, efficient and coordinated transition. The report highlights the need for market participants to take immediate action. With every new IBOR or EONIA trade executed, the extent of the market's reliance on those benchmarks increases and the transition challenge increases. The report provides a detailed implementation checklist that you can use to track your progress towards benchmark transition and there are five elements in that checklist which I'll just briefly describe now and are up on the slide. So first, establish a formal transition programme. This is likely to involve appointing a senior executive to manage a multi-year transition programme, establishing a robust governance structure for the programme, allocating budget, confirming staffing needs, defining your programme work streams and initiating internal stakeholder education and to be clear this is likely to involve multiple teams across your businesses in the case of international businesses that will be a global effort. Second, assess your exposure to affected benchmarks. So this is likely to involve developing an inventory of products, financial instruments and contracts linked to affected benchmarks, quantifying the exposure to those benchmarks across core business lines and products and calculate that exposure that's anticipated to roll off prior to key dates 2019, 2020 and 2021 and then evaluate your operations by assessing the impact on processes, data and importantly technology. You might also want to implement internal reporting to monitor your exposure to affected benchmarks throughout the transition period. Now the third step is to analyse your contracts. Someone mentioned earlier that transition might involve lawyers to the lowest extent possible. I think here perhaps it's obvious that we may need to involve lawyers to some degree. You'll need to involve your lawyers to review existing contracts to assess the status of your current fallback provisions by product and contract type and determine where contracts require repapering. So as we've heard today, your IBO is in the process of being reformed but in the meantime sufficient safeguards should be established in all contracts to mitigate the risk of potential adverse scenarios and indeed in some cases the benchmark regulation requires this. The IBO global benchmark transition report also notes that involvement with industry working groups for example via trade associations should also be considered. The fourth point is to consider your communication with external parties. So this might involve developing a communication strategy for clients and identifying external parties that need to be involved in your firm's transition. So this might involve for example your technology vendors. They might need a significant lead time to update their systems that they provide to you for example. Last but not least, the suggestion is that you define a transition roadmap. This is likely to involve developing an implementation plan with key projects, milestones and responsibilities. You might also wish to consider keeping up to date with OSSG and RFR working group publications. We've had a lot today about the focus on transparency in the euro area and I think the other working groups and other jurisdictions would also take that approach as well. You can find minutes of working group meetings for example on the ECB website, Bank of England website, ARC website etc. You might also wish to think about contributing to the demand for design of and trading in new products that reference alternative RFRs such as ESTA in due course. So to conclude, the IBOR global benchmark transition report sets out a useful implementation checklist that individual market participants can use in their benchmark transition planning. Market participants are being strongly encouraged to prepare actively for benchmark transitions. In the words of Benoit Cuire, financial market participants on their part should redouble their efforts to ensure a smooth transition and time is running short. Thank you. Thank you very much indeed. I'm director general for fines for European investment bank meaning that I'm in charge of the funding liquidity management back office, middle office asset liability management of this institution. I'm actually also a board member of ICMA so I'm quite happy to speak after a representative of this excellent association. It's a great pleasure for me to be invited to speak here today.  So I'll try to be brief. I'm sure that a lot of you are cringing now because when somebody says I'll be brief usually the other way around but I'll try to keep up to my promise. The European investment bank is an invited member of the Euro risk rate working group and as such I must say that it has witnessed considerable progress in the global thinking about this question of rate succession and benchmark succession. At the same time it's certainly a program, an adventure that is still in the making that is still full of unknowns and uncertainties and I would say that the main message I will start with is that these uncertainties are not a reason not to do anything that actually we are now we've met progress enough to start now to prepare actively and that I would like to do today is to explain how the market practitioner, market member like the Yabi is starting to get ready to prepare for this transformation. So in my presentation today I will first of all share a few ideas about the analysis of interdependencies, the analysis of the field play that we have to work with. Then I'll give you some ideas of what we are doing or what we've done and maybe also what we still have to do, what we haven't done yet and then I'll give you a bit of more focus on one of these things we've done which is resenditions of a GBP Sonya floating rate note. So first of all I think it's very important to start analyze when you start working on how to get ready and how to prepare to start looking at the interdependencies. As a bank we basically we are financial intermediaries so we channel money from agents in financial surplus, typically investors who buy EIB bonds in our case to agents, economic agents who are in financial deficit, typically our private sector and public sector borrowers. And of course if our investors for example don't follow the developments in the interest rate benchmarks and if they continue to prefer buying instruments that refer to old benchmarks it's not going to incentivize us as an issuer to work actively on this succession. So certainly we have to have an interactive interaction with investors in order to promote visions of bond referencing the new benchmarks and to actively explore market solutions to deal with the legacy bond that would refer to old benchmarks. Similarly with our borrowers if they don't start themselves to prepare for the transition to the new benchmark it's not going to help us either as a lender it's not going to help us to initiate the discussions that we need to have with them at some point to amend our existing loan contracts and to actively explore the opportunity of introducing to them new reference rates lending contracts. And we also need actually interaction under collaboration of market infrastructures because if they don't innovate and they don't develop alternative hedging solutions it's not going to help us to make progress and to help the market community to be steered out of the old benchmark. Similarly we need industry associations and working groups to elaborate and formulate practical solutions, workable solutions to smooth transition. We need the regulators and legislators. We need them to take into account the practical constraints that the stakeholders market practitioners are facing for an orderly transition. It's very interesting regulators to avoid any way chaos and to have a smooth transition and we may need them to set rules for this transition and to make rules for the statements of discontinuation for example. One last words on this analysis of interrelationships and interdependencies. First of all regulators and legislators have said that this process should be market driven and driven by market practitioners which is very good and in a way thanks to their associations and working groups markets are indeed able to develop a lot. But we will need the guidance of regulators anyway and what is very important is that these guidance is from the associations and from the regulators converge harmoniously and for that I must say that this working group is a very important forum that certainly is still needed. The other thing I would like to say is that the level of preparation is still very unequal and even today actually the composition of this audience shows it. There is an angle that is not yet much engaged into the process which is basically the corporates especially the smaller ones and even more the retail clients and that makes me think that this kind of event has to be repeated in the future and actually I discussed that briefly with you Cornelian with Ben Wahoo who is already starting his recon preparation maybe because we I don't know but we should repeat this event and perhaps decline this event capitalizing on the existence of a network of national central banks and also a network of national relays of the industry associations to really be able to engage more with the SMEs and with the retail clients. To give you an example we are monitoring already the demand for our clients and at the moment those clients were speaking were asking here be about new rates new reference rates for the continue is actually only a handful of them so so definitely there's still work to do. Now that I've explained all these interdependencies let's turn to what we've tried to do already at my institution. First of all we did what the SCMA did as well so we started to list all the uncertainties and all the unknowns and it's a work that can be a bit discouraging at the beginning and I can tell you that I heard some of my colleagues on not only at the DAB actually but also outside basically saying why the hell are we doing all that it was working so well. We know since and it was explained this morning that it was not working that well and actually it was working well on the very dodgy foundations and that now we're working to something that will be much better founded but nevertheless it is true that the listing of unknowns is something that is a bit formidable on the first outlook but needs to needs to be done actually once it's done it's relatively reassuring because conceptually the list is easy to grasp. So on the basis of this list that I'm not going to repeat we then started to work and to be fair we're starting to work not so long ago if only because some of the uncertainties were too uncertain until a few months ago so we started basically at the beginning of this year in February to set up a project and the responsibility of the asset liability committee there's an asset liability committee at VAV like in every I would say in every bank I'm the chair of this ALCO and all the services mainly impacted by this evolution are now embarked into a special ALCO project where we look at all these angles the first thing we did and we've done that I would say we've done three quarters of that so it's but it's very important I think to start with it is to measure our current exposure in economic terms to the different interest rate benchmarks so it's a mapping exercise actually where per currency where per rate per maturity we figure the gross nominal exposure the gross outstanding nominal amount I would say what is interesting is then to get to a second level which is the measure of a net outstanding amount which we are still working on but the gross has been done already the gross mapping has been done already and in the main at the same time we've already conducted an assessment of the existing fallback provisions that we have already in our contracts for the different asset and liability classes now in term of action plan we have divided our internet our project into five work streams which are more or well advanced and which I will now describe a little bit more whereas one work stream is a bit evident it's the monitoring of key developments so we just have we have some sort of a control tower team that is monitoring what's going on in the various markets it's a continuous process that is time consuming but absolutely necessary and we also value an alias we value the opportunity to be part of different working groups which are excellent opportunities to discuss and share information there's a business business work stream on the funding side we we actually explore the possibility to issue bonds that refer to new benchmarks we did that in June in GBP and I will turn back to that later on we also look listen to what various working groups are proposing or starting to propose for the management of legacy bonds referencing to old benchmarks in our case I must say that this is a risk that is of a limited size fortunately but there is still a few floating rate notes that have a majority beyond 21 on the lending side we are currently concentrating our efforts on introducing fallback provisions in our master lending contracts and to and beyond that we know that we we have to enter then a phase of bilateral discussion with with clients in case of discontinuation of some of these indices and before entering this negotiation phase that what we should do probably and we have not done that yet is to establish to to prepare a communication strategy to our clients to to to already put them into into to tell them how we're going to proceed and why we're going to proceed on the treasury and asset liability management side while it's mostly market monitoring monitoring hedging solution we are looking at we are looking forward to the conclusions of the is the consultation on fallback provisions and protocol on legacy trade so at the moment it's more I would say it's more monitoring than than uh else we uh we are also there's another work stream on the valuation uh the risk management the valuation and the accounting of uh uh and the impact on these fields on the new uh reference rates the introduction of new reference rate benchmarks actually it will introduce new types of positions new types of interest rate basis that haven't been exposed so far and are actually naturally ignored by our risk management framework so we have to we have to adapt risk risk management frameworks we we have also to prepare for the for changes or evolutions in the way instruments like interest rate derivatives will be valued so we've started already internal discussions about that we will have to also adapt our fund transfer system fund fund transfer pricing system uh to uh these new interest rates uh and to uh price we will have to prepare the pricing of our loans to the measurement of the contribution of our new of our different activities in case of of a permanent continuation of some of the benchmarks we're using today on the legal and documentation side we are at the moment mostly monitoring what market is developing in terms of market standards and finally there's a work stream which is data on IT applications at this moment it's too early for us to embark into a detailed plan on our art systems IT systems but we have already earmarked in our budget planning for 2019 we've already earmarked actually a budget for for for accommodation of our art systems to new interest rate benchmarks this actually makes me say that all this requires at some level and I'm sure it's the case with you an engagement of our governance so this mapping for example that we've done of our risk exposures is some something that we are informing our management of and and of course we are exposing them to the need of for example setting up a budget contingency for uh investment in 2019 now I'm almost done and I'll just say a few words of one of the highlights of the thing we've done so far which is this issuance of sonia floater it's actually a project we started last year so it's been a long project to develop and probably and hopefully now that the markets become more and more attuned to the reality that benchmarks will change probably will be quicker for all the new experiments but these experiments with sonia started with us in April 2017 and came in realization to to full realization only I would say one year one year later I think we'll be quicker for nesta for not no estus reo soffa trail but sorry for that but to um to to ensure this uh successful check and let's say trade with a new interest rate we had to engage actually with market market constituents from the public side we had to discuss with the bank of england for the if only for the report eligibility with the fca with the uk dmu with the investors with banks with industry working groups and we did that in two stages we first did a quasi lab experiment it was a two million only issuance in march it was a five year floating rate note and then we looked at how it went actually we discovered very interesting questions for example the report eligibility of this bond was legally absolutely impeccable but the systems did not allow it because the system did not provide for the possibility to recognize the existence of a sonia floating rate note so this is very interesting to discover but it's better to discover that on a lab size exercise and so this very small issuance and then we uh so when we thanks to this experiment we were more or less sure that our system but also other system could handle the threat properly that the paying agent could run a coupon calculation properly that the investors could book a transaction on value of the bond properly that the bond could be repaid properly that the deal structure was actually meeting market demand we did this full size new issuance a five year issuance with a specificity of paying coupons linked to sonia and not to labor and we had to make choices and we made a choice that these coupons are quarterly and set equal to the compounded daily sonia with a five day lag and this seems to have served up some sort of market reference to other issuance since then I'll stop there I hope I'm up to my promise of being not too not too long um it's been a very interesting day I must say uh again regulators worldwide are telling us that this reform should be market led uh this will succeed only if we all prepare for it and here I think this room is full of people who are rather well prepared but we still have to work with others as well thank you very much


So, uh, hi, my name is Edward Lucena, um, and almost all the networks are running X3 and boy.  It's shorter than clear. Um, and in the past, I was, uh, running the marketing team. License. Ereditary. A role I get from from Justin flurry. And the problem with the marketing team was that we don't have any specific direction we were trying to accomplish some tasks that were done by release. Uh, but that task, I wouldn't add in specifically related with marketing per se, for example, collecting screenshots and updating the bookmarks that were the package that have them bookmarks on Firefox. Um, because the task was kind of simple and not marketing related. We lost track of a lot of people that was trying to do some marketing. Um, after I came with the idea of having a podcast that is the Fedora podcast. More people got interested. And finally, in my share with a, the objective of the community. A rich revamp, uh, we get more track again with the marketing team and we have a very best focus on what we want to do. And more people that really know about marketing because my involvement in marketing was because I want to help in any area with any tasks that I can do. For example, take the screen just was something I was able to do. Uh, and also with updating the package was something that was very simple that is just a good push to figure where the package live. But I'm not a marketing expert. I became some kind of expert of how the Fedora marketing team work. But I'm here trying to push the marketing team back because I think marketing is a very important part of any project and more, more mostly when the project is so big in pushing a lot of people outside trying to reach a lot of people outside to use a very well done, uh, Linux distribution that sent the president to their red hat enterprise linus and the CentOS string Linux. And now that Alma Linux is based on the on the downstream of rail. We have a very, very, very big, uh, uh, field of work. So we need to be able to to market Fedora very at least best of better than we were doing now. So the idea of the marketing revival is that work with of my idea was working with the new tools that we are working now because we are not using a bug or a bug or our Git repository. It's not going to be updated. We are moving to GitLab. We are moving our mailing list a lot of from discussion where people as more it's half more it's easier to work in in an interface of discord. That's that's my point.  I want to do this. I think marketing could be something important if we take our social media in order trying to work with our social media the right way to take people that know how to do that. Um, since we have a Isabella working with us that is very engaging with the social media and just have very, very good ideas on how to do marketing campaigns. And now we are working in several stuff. So I'm going to allow to say that we move we move from our old tools from pager we moved to GitLab that is this is the marketing issue tracker now we have 11 issues. And I started working in my the first thing I did was working in the Fedora share your screen week. And we are I'm going to propose the working of the Fedora 36 release Fedora share your screen probably next week. And I think the idea of using GitLab is because we don't have to maintain it as a community project. GitLab is an enterprise is a company that have this very good product and we do we do have to use it and report when we need something. Also, we are using this course, not mailing list, but it's very easy to engage are very constructed. We have reactions you have replies you have the ability to connect with the calendar with the IRC with the chat. I think the idea of having more like a forum that mailing list is engaging more people to contribute, even when the more hardcore user of Fedora still are still attached to mailing list. I think that the discourse move was the idea that I think even bring Joseph here. I think if we kept just doing mailing list just a while we're here. I'm not sure where the mailing list are so I think it's hyper kitty. Yes. So yeah. This is awesome. So we moved to this course. And we are working in trying again the podcast and the third season of the podcast into life and we have several ideas and then from here I'm allowing Joseph to talk about what we are planning because this is related to the marketing campaigns we want to try now. Sure. Well, thank you. I thank you Edward and also appreciate all the stuff that you've done kind of continuing the marketing team from from where it was and through to now. So yes, the podcast that is one thing that we are looking at it kind of fits into the context of a broader idea that we're trying, which is the idea of a monthly marketing campaign. So it started with how can we how to put it. What's a process that we could use that gives us a good, you know, relatively quality output in terms of like the content or what have you that is consistent and sustainable.  We want it to be good, but it has to be something that wouldn't be so demanding that it drops off because it's too big of an ask. So the idea with the monthly marketing campaigns, you know, it's still experimental. So if we can be consistent with it, it would be that on a given month. So let's say this month, August, and we look at what is something that we can promote through a campaign for this month. We chose the example of Apple. So if you saw there in that discussion post, if you find that that's going to have a bunch of things about Apple podcast about Apple. I'm actually going to add there an Apple survey, which is not us, but we are coordinating with the Apple team and we're thankful for mind sure as well for forgetting that done. So the idea is we decide on a topic, in this case, Apple. And then we try to think, all right, let's, I don't know, one to three things that we could do that would be varied that we could then publish in the following month. Originally, this was planted in July. So that's what we're in August now. And that's why this is stuff will hopefully start getting out. But that's that's the general idea. Can we push out like one to three things? And so what we came up with as of now is maybe we can do a blog post, which is something that I have in the works. We can be having some posts on like Twitter and Instagram or what have you. And also the podcast, which is what Edward was referring to, where we can just try to drive a little deeper into whatever that topic is. So on one end, you have the increased awareness of it just being on the podcast, but also hopefully it becomes interesting content for someone who just wants to listen to the podcast or would like to learn more about that. So the idea is, you know, if we can if we can do that, then for August, we had some coverage for Apple and then in August, we will think about, OK, what do we want to cover for the next month that's produced that content. And then in the following month, we will distribute that will post it or on the various channels or what have you. The idea for now is for that to kind of be the. That's if we can get that little marketing engine going and consistent, then over time as months go by, we will get to a lot of different areas that maybe weren't seeing coverage before. So Apple, for example, is one where literally I came across it because I dove into a meeting channel on Matrix and I saw literally Troy Dawson was talking about, hey, there's some documentation about marketing that we should probably nix. And I'm like, wait, no, we're trying something. And that led to getting in touch with him and then becoming the first folks that we're trying to do this with. So it's something we're we're excited about. It looks very mental, but hopefully we'll be able to figure it out so that it is consistent. So that's kind of the main piece of what a lot of these slides cover. I think the last one is just so. So our contacts, I will be an Instagram on the creator of the project we. Isabella and me have access to the accounts and we are trying to push a sub that was written original by one of the content. I'm not sure who it was. It seems was Brian, right? Brian did the file. Right. Yes, he did the SOP. So the idea is right now I'm seeing we are trying to push two fronts. There are to get more campaigns and to get more engaged in social media. So the part of social media was started by Brian that helped us to grow a writing the SOP for using the Twitter account. He was the original. I don't know if it's the original, but at least one of the lattice admins of the Twitter account and he started to with science. We didn't have a strategy as a project to tweet. We just read with some stuff and tweet about events, but we didn't have a strategy to consistently try to grow our user base or have social media strategy. He came with very good ideas. We discussed it in several meetings. And that's other platform that is not mentioned. We move from IRC to chat or that is our matrix instance. And the idea of the marketing now is to to work in what marketing really should be doing that is do marketing campaigns and to work in the social media strategies. So thanks. I want to say to Joseph. I miss all of that. It's helping a lot and I know I don't get too much time to do meetings, but I try to to help everywhere I came in the discussion and in the tickets. We open in good luck. But I think we are doing a great job and I will be there if when the podcast is revival. That's my baby boy. So I'm not going to do a podcast. Also, we want to people that want to do something in the project that feel comfortable coming to us and we can help people to engage and promote their projects. We have, I think I want to share a message with the general public in order to contribute to Fedora is that any idea can become something very big. Don't be shy to share your idea or speak your idea out loud in marketing or with my share or inside anything you are working. I remember I did a comment in a mailing list that is the developer mailing list about a we always are saying this package is being orphan or this project is being dropped because it doesn't have upstream support or because nobody is taking care of this package anymore. And if you just see the biggest players in the in the blog also that likes I call it people that do news or blocks or blog posts, like for onyx or these big news media sites. They take very seriously what is posted in the developer mailing list of the project. So I say, hey, how we can do the bad work part how we can promote package that is being included what new software that is being included updates that are very big that we are making inside the project. Finally, even when it was a little question it became a new project that is a site that will be collecting a new pushes and people that want to work to talk about what they are doing and what they want to promote inside the distribution in terms of what software is being included inside the and it was just an idea I had like a, if we promote orphan it and what is being retired, what we can promote what is being included. It's a look at for me at the time I did that idea, what it looks silly it was a silly email, just an idea I had that I dropped there, and it's now a project that is being held by the developers of the third Don't be shy, the podcast is started exactly like that. I talked with the previous fk that was Brian X over here and say, hey, I love I am starting to get into the this podcast by by following very several of the biggest podcasts from of Linux. And I think we can do something similar. I thought there is other distribution that have attempts to have podcasts but they are all unofficial why we can do it inside the flow approach. And he said, okay, what do you need. So I need someone that can do podcasts I don't know how to do it it's just an idea. So do your develop to your research and I started to look how we can do how we can record and I started with a list of topics that can be touched. And, like in three months, I have the, all the first seasons, interviews, schedule, and people committed to say, hey, yes, if you are going to do a podcast we want to be part of it. And for the second season we have the partnership with, and at the time was the deal and the destination in the network now it that took digital network. And this is a sponsor of Nest. Thanks for the sponsorship of Nest. And I started like that is if you have an idea just speak your voice. Don't be shy.  It's better to say an idea to see an idea becoming something that just let it die because you don't want it or you were trying to speak up. Sure. So sorry to interrupt but we have like a few q ways and with only 10 minutes roughly I figured we could maybe go through some of those. Let's go. So there was one I'll answer on the top and then I'll hear him reply in it but when it comes to getting in touch with the marketing team I think the easiest way is literally just to chime in on our matrix channel. We're all there I literally keep that tab open on my on my browser so if someone wants to chime in saying hey, I'd like to contribute or have an idea or hey I, I have a project or a group that I would like to get, you know, see gain more contributors awareness more users. That's something we'd love to know about and help with. It kind of leans into the whole idea of we have a campaign we'd like to decide on a topic of folks chime in saying hey we have something we would like to get marketing. That is the type of topic we're looking for. We have ideas but if you have something where you'd like that as well then that'd be the best place to get in touch and then from there we it's not a formal process for probably like make a ticket or something like that like similar to how I did for Apple. And then another one that I wanted to go ahead. I want to take the second one. Does the marketing team work on correcting messaging that isn't quite right. It's going to depend on the messaging there. The general messaging of the federal project come from the council. And it's discussed very, very openly. So if you want to, to change any idea or message that we are doing. The manager and the council are the right ways to do it. We are like the manpower force to make that messaging out, but not for correcting the message itself. The message itself come from the council and the manager committee. Are we coordinating content related to talking point for community. Yes, the talking points. One of the tasks that we did a lot in the marketing project was to collect talking points about what is new, what is the great things of the new release of Fedora. But that is exciting and it requires a lot of work. Yes, the idea is to try to create content and try to make the content better and be more clear and better to reach the people out and try to just to talk to be able to, if you want to speak about anything related to Fedora to the public, you can come to us and we can, if we cannot help you, we can connect you to the people that is going to help you. That's the message I want to address here. Yes, I would like to get there as well. I see the one from Sam what specific aims are being pursued by the marketing campaign. IG, or EG converting users into contributors. So, in that sense, I would say that marketing is very broad, but also like we want to be specific because there's so many ways that we can tackle it. Maybe we want to cover more users for Fedora, more contributors for Fedora, more contributors for a specific project, just general awareness about something that's going on or an initiative, so it can go in lots of different directions. In the case of Apple, specifically, they were like, actually, we have millions of users, but we don't have a lot of contributors. So, trying to do that is trying to gain more contributors is our goal for that campaign. But if Fedora IoT, because that one caught my attention, if they were like, oh, we'd love to get more users to see more, you know, get an immutable OS out there for IoT, then that would be our goal there. So, it's going to depend on what the goals of each individual campaign is, but really it's any kind of message we want to get out with something that we could potentially help with. Yeah, for this following question, will it be beneficial to have batched people who are considered poker person from the community? We have several, okay, we have several that are related to ambassadors and advocates and every people that want to talk about the Fedora community. And yes, it is always beneficial. People are really excited about batch. I have 30 of myself. So, yes, everything we can push a batch about any people that want to contribute or talk. Even if we have a new batch that is will be rewarded to people that are interviewed in the podcast. It's coming. And I want to take the next question too that Alexandra asked. I was going to give it to you. I'm going to misinterpret the message on the whole mailing list and made news out of nothing. Do you see it is in the scope of the marketing team to implement countermeasures to it? Yes, and not only to implement countermeasures to it, I'm trying to contact and I have several emails going and common going with the like two or three foreign writers to try to give the best message out and have a better source. So yes, I think we want to implement some kind of countermeasures. One of the idea was to put what is being to promote the new package and all this kind of stuff. But also we want to try to make to make them come to us when they have a new and we can maybe try to make connecting with the right people to have the news. Not misinterpreted. That is how like they should be out. I mean, there's a question of putting an example for now. The one that says should the working groups provide something like a two by two of highlights and no less for the marketing team? I guess if they mean that just in the abstract of hey, here's like a little summary of what it is that we're doing if we wanted to touch on that and something like a tweet or an Instagram post. We don't have anything organized for that now, but I wouldn't say no way that is referring to collaboration with the marketing team. I'm just going to paste in here the ticket where we started discussion with the Apple team. As of now, that's kind of what it would most likely be like. It just be starting having a conversation. It likely will involve education for us. Like I didn't I really didn't know what it was, but I learned so that I could help in this. And it likely be a conversation that starts with learning more about what exactly the working group does. And then discussing like what would be interesting content to to provide. Because we want to be like, you know, interesting and engaging and not just, you know, talking points of this is why our thing is amazing, you know, but that's more creative and besides the point. Exactly. And I want to address the Alexandra comment. And yes, that's the idea. The idea is not that they write nicer things, but they explain to them what they are trying to write and not to make fake news or wrong impressions about something they want to write because they think it's interesting or something. For example, there is a blog. Or at least it's an aesthetic side that is called flat kill that address a lot of lies about flag packs. And people go there a lot. And it was addressed by the destination Linux network and it was a very good episode if you can look for the episode two to two of the destination Linux podcast. They address everything that is mentioned in the flat kill website. And I say this kind of thing that the destination Linux network do for us. It's not because they do for us they do because they don't agree about that. But something like that could be addressing if people get in touch with the right people to before start writing something I have this idea or I don't I think this is insecure because this of that and why we can how we can address that and how we can push this new I think even in the console presentation in this there was a question about flat hub being insecure and say, hey, we don't develop flat hop. There is a lot of people that work flat hop and we have a Fedora's flat hop that is the name and we do this because of this and this and this and to have to be with the real source of the news is and I think it's not try to write a nicer things but at least have the facts the right facts. Before you start writing and try to understand what you are you are writing about. I think there are there is another question we can close with this question. This is Marie. Oh, hi, Marie. How can the mind share committee of the general support marketing revival, asking for a stuff. If we do want to market something if you want to tweet something if you have an idea of how we can be better we have a lot of comments about we can promote Fedora for gaming or we are doing a great stuff with Electron and this kind of stuff. Oh, did you think your project is is losing track of we can help to gain track again to get people more involved. And we can do a little campaign to promote it like we are trying to do with Apple. I think this campaign would be awesome because I know a lot of people that have any idea what Apple is. Myself was a self like six months ago I didn't know exactly what the pedals I know it was a set of package for enterprise linus but now I understand it a little bit better because we are having in contact with them. So for the marketing for the major committee and the Fedora project itself. We are in shadow for the project or in the hashtag marketing. I think it's a is the channel. We are in telegram. We are in we have we are we have a tag in discussion if you want to put an idea there. Just go there. I agree. And also if you want to help with marketing. I'm not sure if you want to help out come with more has more work. Yes the podcast comeback is not specifically related with the marketing team but we are I'm going to to take advantage of it. Since we are going to work with mostly campaign I think I'm going to take at least one with a regular schedule of the podcast for each season it should be by weekly. Not weekly like other podcasts. So my idea is to take one of the of the weeks to work to make the podcast about the monthly campaign we are doing in marketing. So for example in August we are going to take Apple that is not going to be in August I think it's going to be out in September but I'm going to do the interview with Apple and the next episode will be I don't know anything any other thing. I think like three things planet but I need to schedule interviews with people if you're talking about so yes it's not. It's not entirely separated. I'm going to take advantage of the marketing revival to revive the to make the third season of the podcast because it's not that it's just waiting for the third season to be recorded. And we reached our time mark. So thank you. Thank you David for wanting to supply us the content. Thank you guys so much. I appreciate it and thank you to Edward and also the Issa who I thought maybe would jump on but I guess she's been doing great.  Thank you so much. Have a land just for helping me to take this and set you to everyone to hear our session. Have a nice rest of next. Yes. Thank you so much. Thank you guys. Bye bye.