So, thank you very much for having me. First of all, I wanted to take a moment to talk about hackers. A lot of the previous presentation was about how cyber is represented in the media and how hackers are represented in the media is often that they are evil and that they are equated with criminals. So, I'm going to talk about some of these new incentive programs or bounty programs and the ways that you can attract well-intentioned hackers to your cause of defense. A lot of people when bounties first started thought about bounties as an extortion mechanism for hackers and in fact it's quite the opposite. So what does a hacker really look like to you? This is actually a picture of me hacking on a video game system back in the days when Alex Damos and I used to be penetration testers. This was the way that people with hacking skills used to make money about a decade or a decade and a half ago. So, your idea of what a typical hacker looks like may be very different from the gentlemen, from the army cyber command in the backstage area who started thanking me for this event, who thought I was one of the event planners. So, you know, I challenge your assumptions in this area. What is a bug bounty really? So how many of you are familiar with the concept of bug bounties? Okay, so it's in general, it's paying people for vulnerability information and I actually consider this term bug bounty, specifically the word bug, to be a misnomer in this case. It's really about incentive programs and it's really not about extortion or paying for things in order to keep information quiet but it's actually attracting the right eyes to the things that you want to consider. So before I was at hacker one, I spent seven years at Microsoft. Before that was the seven years spent as a penetration tester and we won't go even further back except for maybe at the karaoke bar later tonight. However, I'm going to talk about the bounty programs that I started at Microsoft in June of 2013. So these were very interesting incentive programs. Only one of them was actually paying for individual vulnerabilities in a single product. And that was the bottom one that was up to $11,000 for IE11 bugs in the beta release of IE11. We're gonna go into these programs in more depth. But to date, since June 2013, over half a million dollars has been paid by Microsoft to well-intentioned hackers who have come forward with not just vulnerability information about individual bugs, but also about new defense techniques. And the $100,000 prize has been paid out several times for brand new attack techniques. These aren't just any kind of attack. These are what we call mitigation bypasses. So if you think of a mitigation as a shield across the entire platform, it protects all the applications on the platform that opt into those technical mitigations and it also protects even third party applications that opt in to some of those platform level mitigations. What they're designed to do is break individual exploits. So make individual exploits harder to exploit on the platform, hence that shielding effect. So paying $100,000 for a brand new technique that breaks that shield was something that was worthwhile for the company to do and to learn about. So before we dive into how these programs actually did in real life, let's talk a little bit about how the markets work. So in general, you can divide the markets for vulnerabilities and exploit information into three categories. And I like to categorize them based on their intended purpose. You could easily categorize them based on the price points, where the defense market pays the least. The mixed use market pays a little more. And of course the offense market pays the most. But really if you think about it, the incentives that you're trying to create here, you cannot compete directly with that offense market with money. If you try to do so, it gets what's gonna happen. The offense market is just gonna rise. In general, those are going to have, and no pun intended, those are going to essentially have unlimited budget and unlimited resources if the markets go up in the defense zone. So you have to think about it in a different way and create your incentives accordingly. Mixed use is mixed use. It's essentially those markets are either creating vulnerabilities and exploits for defensive purposes. So looking for zero day vulnerabilities and selling them as a subscription to people who want to build custom signatures to protect their networks. It's also being used in the offensive sense. The interesting thing about the offences market is that, among that market, that market pays the most because it wants those vulnerabilities to stay secret for the longest amount of time. The defense market is pretty much the only market that wants to see those fixed. So in creating these incentive programs, this was the very first $100,000 check. Actually the only $100,000 check I've personally ever written. But it was to James Forsha, a researcher out of Britain, who came up with the very first mitigation bypass technique that qualified for $100,000. People said that we would never be able to outbid the black market. But in reality, who were we actually bidding against? The black market doesn't need a new mitigation bypass. They have techniques that work. They don't need to buy the next generation of it. Only the vendor responsible for building the next version of the platform more securely actually had a use for this information. Similarly, you are looking at a diagram that actually convinced the Internet Explorer team to buy their own bugs. This is actually what I showed them. And it was a projection. So the blue line is the real data from IE10. That low little squiggle is how many bugs IE10 got during the beta period, not many. Lots of big spike at the end after it was released to manufacturing or after code was frozen. Why is that? Because none of the markets were trading, not even the hackers who would come to Microsoft for free. Because essentially, their only incentive was getting 12 point aerial font credit and thanks in a bulletin. If that bug was fixed during the beta period, no bulletin. Everyone was holding. So the only way to get them to come forward was to create an incentive at the beginning of the beta period. So that was the projection. Actual results, 18 bulletin class issues were delivered to Microsoft during the first 30 days of the IE11 beta. So what does that mean? How much do you think we paid? Anyone have a guess? It was up to $11,000 per. Do you think we paid $11,000 per? $28,400 was spent on those 18 bulletin class issues. Each one of them would have fetched six figures in the offense market. So if your goals are to try and disrupt the marketplace, disrupt your adversaries, you would bounty a new attack. You would bounty defense. Those are things that the offense market doesn't need. In addition, you look for gaps in your market to take advantage of places where nobody is buying. So you set the price. So no matter what you do, you need to invest the most security in your proactive security efforts and build security in from the ground up. But at the end of the day, all code has security bugs. So the models, as they stand, don't need you to think in this two-dimensional plane of trying to outbid when you really need to outthink. And in that dimension brings us to something that is near and dear to my heart, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. And the president's words about strengthening some of the punishments. I personally have never met a criminal who thought to themselves, gee, I'm going to step away from the keyboard because the minimum sentence went from five years to 10 years. But I have met plenty of legitimate security researchers, a.k.a. friendly hackers, who have stepped back from reporting vulnerabilities to those who need to fix them because they are afraid of prosecution. So if you care about vulnerability research and if we're talking about public-private partnerships, I think we should have a conversation about carving out safe haven for researchers who want to come forward. We're essentially going to need all hands on deck, no matter what they look like, no matter how they seem to you at first, whether or not they fit some of the admiral's criteria for hiring directly into Cyber Command. We need all hands on deck and the hackers are among them. Thank you.


Inevitably this is a lake, right? Right, right, right. It should just stay filled with water for a long time. Right. Wow. It's a big difference. Two days after the recent storm we had last week, and just a difference in some of the fixes we put in place, a thousand feet of sewers, really looking at ways to mitigate the flow of water. So there's a little bit of rain here, but we put in a pipe and it tapped into, as I said, the existing sewer system. This area would still be two to three feet deep with water. Interesting. But for that, did it solve the flooding problem on Friday in Ophelia, in this neighborhood? No. But what it made it do was it receded quickly, and so it doesn't have that long-term damage. Right. The water has gone away, but we are not going away. So some of our long-term plans are still being actualized, but some of the short-term plans is really showing some results. It's going to be several administrations that are going to have to continue and build on to what we have done here. But we are definitely going to get it started, and you can see that from the results today.


Welcome to The Journey. I'm Nealey. And I'm Morgan. And today we're going to give you eight quick tips to improve your local SEO. All right, Morgan, before we dive into the tips, it's probably a good idea to really understand what is SEO and why is it so important? Yeah, the reason we use search engines is because they have proven time and time again that they provide the best answers to the questions that we're searching for. And if your website doesn't appear on the first page of the search results, then you're nowhere. And so SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization, and it's work that you do to make sure that you prove to Google and other search engines that you're the best. So for SEO, I like to use the analogy of all the work that you need to do is like a thousand-piece puzzle. Okay. And you and all of your competitors, you all have the same puzzle, and we're trying to prove to Google who's the best. Like, which one of these puzzles is the most complete? My puzzle is definitely the best. Yours is definitely the best. We know that. Does Google know that? We shall find out. But the thing is, not everyone has all 1,000 pieces. Some people are new, some people have been doing it for a long time, and Google doesn't necessarily care that you have all the pieces in. You just have... The thing that Google cares about is that you have more than the next guy. And you could have maybe 10 pieces, and if you're in not a very competitive space, then, yeah, you're going to appear on the first page. So these eight tips that we're going to talk about are going to help you to start putting those pieces in to get started on your SEO journey for local businesses. Perfect. So let's jump into the tips. What's tip number one? Tip number one for local businesses, everybody needs this, is you need to create or claim your Google My Business profile. Google My Business is this tool that Google has created that allows users to see all of your business information in one place. We did a video all about this, so go check it out so you can deep dive. But basically, if you don't have a profile, you need to go create one. And if you haven't claimed your profile, meaning that your profile exists, but you didn't necessarily do it, or some user created that, you need to claim it so that way you can update it with all the right information. Right. You need to make sure it's in your control. Don't let it out to the world for anyone to add. It's yours. Yep. So tip number two is that you need to optimize your profiles. It's great to have it created, but if you don't have all the information that Google is looking for, then they're not going to recommend your business over someone else. So that means having your business name correct, your address, your phone number, your hours of operation. Those are the basics that most people do, but optimizing it really means going a level below that. So adding photographs, adding your logo, adding pictures of your building so that way when people are actually going to your business, they know what it looks like. If you're a restaurant, include pictures of dishes and what you're known for. So that way people have lots more information when they're looking at your Google My Business page. So those are the key things that you need to do to optimize it. If there's reviews that are outstanding, you need to respond to all of those reviews. You need to encourage your customers to go and leave reviews because that also plays a part in how you're going to rank against other local business profiles. All right, Morgan. What's tip number three? Tip number three is you need to add your business to relevant business directories. These are other sites that their main business is promoting other businesses like yourself. And so you need to make sure that your business not only is there, but the information is correct. And the great thing, it's an easy backlink. So it really helps with your SEO to make sure that your business, anywhere people are looking at these business directories, your business shows up. All right, which brings us to tip number four. Tip number four is to add your business address to your website. It sounds pretty plain and simple, but a lot of websites don't have that. So again, to increase your rankings, this is one thing that not only Google is looking for, but your users. If they're wanting to visit your business, they want to have the address very prominently placed. So put it in the footer. Have a separate page about your location. Just make sure that is there visible and very prominent. All right. So should we put like a Google Maps little thing on the site too? Yeah, that helps. That's visual. People can click it. They can see exactly where you're located, the cross streets. So that's always helpful as well. They just make sure that you actually have the address called out and written out next to that. Perfect. Which brings us to tip number five. What's tip number five? Make sure that your NAP is consistent across the web. What's NAP? Name. I like NAPs. I mean, name, address, phone number. Okay. So you need to make sure that those three things are consistently formatted everywhere. So pick one, then update it on your website. Stick with it. Update it on your Google My Business and then update it anywhere else where your website appears. If you don't own those websites, email the owner and say, hey, can you update this? And most likely they will. But just make sure it's consistent everywhere. Perfect. Tip number six. What do we got? You need to update your home page's meta title and meta description. The meta title and meta description are things on your website that you control how your website shows up on the search results. So whatever the meta title is, that's what will appear on the search engine results page and then the little description below. This is a great opportunity for you to let your clients know what you're about. So if you are a coffee shop in Seattle, maybe you should have that in your meta title and description. Put your location, put more information about your business. So that way your users know what you're about. Right. And most website builders or applications that you use have a section for you to add a meta title and meta keyword and meta descriptions. If you don't know how to go in the back end and do it, which most of us don't want it to, right? So if you need help, just contact whoever you're hosting your site with. They'll probably be able to help you get that information there because if you don't set anything, Google will just assume whatever it wants to put there. It may not always be relevant to what you want to invoke to your audience. All right, Morgan. What do we got for tip number seven? Tip number seven is just to make sure that all of your other SEO elements are in place. Make sure that you have great content on your website. Make sure that your source code is formatted in the way that Google likes to see it. Make sure that you have great number of high quality backlinks that are pointing back to your site. All of this will help with your local SEO. We actually did an entire video all about the basics for SEO. Check it out right here. So it's super relevant to make sure your site is structured in a way that Google basically wants, right?  So only one H1 tag per site. Images are super important because Google cannot read images, but it can read text. So that's that little description there. Most website builders or applications like WordPress has a place for you to add those. All right, Morgan. We're on the very last tip. It's been an incredible journey. Hashtag the journey. What is tip number eight? Tip number eight is to consider launching paid ads or Google guarantee. So if you're not getting the results fast enough of the traction that you need using steps one through seven and appearing in the organic sections, then this is where paid ads and the Google guarantee comes in. So you can consider doing these things. Paid ads, obviously it's pay to play. Boop, you appear right at the top of the search result. It's amazing. But once your ad budget is gone, you no longer appear there. But people click on the ads, they're very effective. So I love paid ads, right? It gets you right to the top. But I'm not really familiar with what Google guarantee is. Give us a low down. So the Google guarantee is basically paid ads, super charged. Okay. So you could pay anyone really can pay to have their business appear in the paid ads. But the Google guarantee takes it to the next level where if someone purchases the service through the Google guarantee and they're not happy, they can get their money back, which is really, really awesome. So it's Google vetting certain businesses and making sure that they provide a great experience. There's extra levels that you have to do to qualify for the Google guarantee, but it's really, really great and stands out in the search results. And people love it. All right, guys. Those were our eight quick tips to help improve your local SEO. I hope you liked it. I liked it. You like it. I thought you would make sure you like this video. Comment below on just something you learned today. Subscribe, ring the bells. You know, when these videos are coming at you first, this has been the journey and we are signing off.


The best advice I've ever been given is never compromise your integrity. That advice has helped me in absolutely everything I've done. Integrity can't be purchased, it can't be bought, it really can't be faked. And whether it be my sailors looking at me, or my children looking at me, or my fellow police officers that I serve with, or the citizens that I serve, my integrity is the most valuable commodity that I have. And without integrity, I feel you can't be a good ethically based leader that serves others. One of the, one person who actually has been there for me in the last four years is being Master Chief Ellis, SH. He is, he's amazing, he's awesome.  In your never career, in your personal life also, you will have a lot of challenges. However, you have to overcome the challenges. That's the biggest thing, overcoming those challenges and looking forward. That's one of the things that he told me, that's the most important things, and that's how you have to lead your people. The best piece of advice that I've been given is you deserve what you tolerate. And again, that goes hand in hand with the leadership trait. If you allow something to happen and you keep allowing it and you're getting certain feedback from your junior sailors, you're tolerating that. You're allowing that to happen, so you deserve what you're getting. The best advice I've ever been given was just to be yourself, be myself, and everything else will follow.


So good day mate 40 here. I've been going to all these singles events and Talking to these women in their 20s and Ladies you need to speak up and articulate I can't understand what many of them are saying unless I like lean right over and Yeah, but go with the left ear. It's the good ear. I think I started getting to knit us tonight. Yes You say tonight is in America. You say tinnitus in Australia Like I have a this constant like roaring ocean sound in my right ear and so my left ear is much better And so if I'm I'm if I'm going to hear what these young ladies are saying have to kind of like lean over with my left ear Which just doesn't seem really cool Like I kind of see myself as a calm collected, you know stand on my own two feet type of guy I'm not you know super, you know thrown by by what's going around in me I've got this inner peace and calm and you know, I like to project that inner peace and calm It just doesn't project inner peace and calm when I'm having to like lean over say speak up You know speak up ma'am. I can't really hear what you're saying. I Mean, I'm not looking forward to getting hearing aids one day and say, oh, yes Let me let me just turn up my hearing aid here. So ladies, please if you want to talk to 40 It's really important that you speak up and you articulate. Why did kids these days? Why do they mumble so much? Like when I was a lad when I was a strapping ladder 15 17 I wasn't mumbling my words. I would speak up.  I mean come on My generation we weren't going around mumbling like when we had something to say we'd say it Like we were we were the type of generation that would have very happily storm, you know Iwo Jima And Normandy. All right, that's the type of people we were And you know, we would have you know gone into the darkest jungles and into the deepest oceans, but we would speak up But but kids these days they're just mumble mumble mumble mumble Like why doesn't anyone teach articulation anymore? Now what happened to the traditional virtues? Like I am a 19th century Victorian gentleman Right, that's how I comport myself and when I speak I speak clearly I speak with articulation. I speak with projection I think the problem with kids these days is they haven't taken alexander technique classes Where they can learn to articulate and to project and to carry themselves with grace and confidence But instead it's like this terrible posture. It's like this text neck that people have Like they've been sitting in in chairs and all their schooling. It's destroyed their posture. They've got these weak tiny Voices and and then I have to like lean over with my one good ear and it's not cool Right speak up be proud stand behind what you're saying You know, don't make me lean down or what I don't like I find myself doing sometimes Like if the girl's like four foot ten, you know, I have to have to come down and just like basically go into a Squat and then just kind of lean over like that and it just it's kind of hard to do in a suit and it just just It's not the greatest look for me to be you know, kind of squatting and leaning it can be completely misinterpreted And and it says in the torii. You don't cast a stumbling block before the blind That's this week's Torah portion Kedoshim, right?  It's so tiring


Do it to it. All righty. Okay, Rodrigo, would you like to welcome everybody? Bom dia a todos, é um prazer estar aqui com vocês. Hello everyone. It's a pleasure to be here with you. All right. Obrigado Rodrigo. That is the voice of one of the boot camp contributors that we will be hosting down in Sao Paulo in June 24th and 25th. Is that right, Rodrigo? Yes, that's right. And can part of part of what we're doing here is we're inviting people from the community that aren't necessarily a regular participant on TSC meetings to help cross pollinate what goes on in the community with with the TSC and vice versa. So Rodrigo will be volunteering at the boot camp. And maybe you could give the audience a feeling for what you and your colleagues do with with hyper ledger, irrespective of the boot camp. Thank you Dan. Yes, we're very excited to have him Brazil first ever camp in our region in Latin America, North America. And now we're going through the marketing campaign. It went together as many people as you can to join us in Sao Paulo. So we can reach out for many new contributors as we can. So the community is growing since we did join the project at the end of 2018. We've seen lots of new commerce coming to us and learning a little bit more about hyper ledger. And how he can work with us and how can they help develop the ecosystem of a region. So we're very glad to when we heard that Sao Paulo was going to host the next boot camp. We're glad to help you guys and help the community grow here. Excellent. Thank you for taking some time to help welcome everybody to the meeting today. And do you have a handle on rocket chat if anybody wants to connect with you there? Yes, it's Rod. Very easy, ROD. Pretty easy. All right. Well, thanks again, Rod. Any questions for Rod before we move along? You know how to find him if you would like to. And I hope everybody gets involved to the extent that they can for the boot camp. You'll see that that is updated on the announcements to reach out to Salona. If you have questions, comments, offers to support that. Why would you like to update everybody on the two factor authentication requirements? Sure. So I went through and reached out this number is incorrect. We're down to three people that have right access to the GitHub org without two factor off. So thank you to everybody who's been turning on their two factor off for GitHub. And I, that's where we are. We have three people left. Okay, great. Those people have not, those three people have not made commits for the last calendar year. So they're inactive essentially. Do we know their email addresses? Can we email them directly or how? So two of them. So number one, I reached out to the two of them on rocket chat because I was able to find their handles. And I sent email to one of them who I was able to get his email address. The other one I reached out to on LinkedIn. And he doesn't have an LFID. So, and I've done, I feel like I've done what I can. That's what I've done. No, I mean, then why don't we just pull the trigger then if there's only three and you've done your best effort to reach out to them. Is it, is it within our protocol that, that you could distribute those individuals to TFC so that if we personally know those individuals, we could, we could do that. Otherwise, you know, just go ahead and do just like what Chris said. I mean, there's nothing that keeps them from rejoining, right, and setting to, I mean, that's our policy. If they set two factor off, they can come in in the future. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, at the same time, if all the main contributors already, you know, already have to enable the exposure is very minimal. So, that's true. Yeah, these guys haven't contributed in a year. So, I know I'm on some threads about this I don't recall. Do we already have a thread to the TSC list that says this is going to happen. Yes. Okay.  Soon. I think we might want to give it another week or so and tell people this is when we're going to do it be ready. I'm fine with that. And you had asked a good question earlier, I know, which was, why doesn't this apply to people who use Garrett. It will soon. And all I can say is soon, I don't have a date. So, at some point soon, to factor off will be required to use LF ID. If you put the TM after the soon, then it's okay. Well, I just hear the air quotes soon. So, what you're saying there then right is that LF it is going to enable to factor off on your LF ID, is that correct. Correct at some point in the future soon. Okay, so and that's out of your control. It is when we switch, when we switch authentication providers, you won't see the old screen anymore. Okay, you'll see on your screen. So, I mean, yeah, then maybe why don't we, can we just take a vote and say let's do it in a week or something. Give him one last warning and yep. I make a proposal. We do it soon. Okay, I, I would like to move the TSE vote that we enable to factor off at the conclusion of the TSE meeting next week to factor off. I'll second that. Yeah, this is specifically for GitHub and the LF ID thing is separate and that will. Right. So this is specifically for the hyper ledger organization hyper ledger labs will come to later. That's another question. So, by the way, yeah, the only people we're missing are Nathan and Silas. Oh, there's Silas is here. Yeah, I was late. Sorry. Okay. So I, I think right moved and I seconded. Great. All in favor. Yeah. Hi. Hi. Any TSE members opposed. TSE members abstaining. Okay. All right. Thank you. Thank you. Yes, thanks for doing all that. Right. Just for, for everybody's benefit in the future when we want to have a voting motion, it's much better if we have that written. This one is kind of trivial, so I'm not worried about it, but it's nice to have explicitly in writing what people are. So if we're going to go to the trouble of doing a vote, let's make sure that we've got some explicit text. Sure. For the next item, Solana is in the air. And I think we already kind of covered that the bootcamp is coming up. Yep. So let's move on to RFC. Alrighty. So, again, we've got the governing board is, is looking at 2020 direction and they want input from the technical community. So that's what I'm working to channel to them. There is a link there to the wiki. It's pretty broad, the kind of feedback that we're looking for, but do put some thought into the rationale will help us understand it when we try to upstream that to the board. And it looks like we also have a heads up that there is a US holiday on the 4th of July. I think a lot of the participants will be out for. And that brings us up to the first discussion topic, the greenhouse graphic, which Brian circulated on Brian, would you like to speak about that. And I don't have to repeat what I said on the list. I just try to set a context for it, which is, you know, the most important thing we're trying to solve for is the fact that the existing graphic, you know, to which we've been adding logos as they as the projects have been started is, you know, growing kind of unwieldy. And I was finding that the term framework for for things like grid wasn't quite right. And so the most important thing was to update that graphic in such a way that it would be would make a little bit more sense. And, and, you know, eventually if we had 200 projects, obviously a big NASCAR style kind of logo or screen won't work. But I did want to look at kind of updating the taxonomy, just one one hair. It was not to try to say this is the only kind of map that could be drawn or that there aren't better ways, such as the CNCF trail map or the way that some other projects might represent them. Or at some point maybe we do just get so big that like Apache or others, it's just a big list. But for the time being, I find it very useful that just existing greenhouse graphic when giving a talk about hyper ledger just to say here's the kinds of things going on here are the kinds of communities we have. You've heard of fabric perhaps you've perhaps have heard of sawtooth or indie here's here's really everything else going on.  But what we were hoping was just kind of a, you know, that the TSC would see this as a gradual improvement and that, you know, absolutely the taxonomy was the first stab and could be changed the most and we it's always always, always tough to try to get projects to be comfortable with kind of how they're positioned. And so very much wanted to work with TSC on positioning and the taxonomy right. But not to forestall conversations but other ways to look at the structure of our community. And how well engaged would you say that the marketing committee has been with working on that. So that the actual graphic redesign was something that we had our in house at the Linux foundation graphic designer do the taxonomy was something that frankly I took an initial stab at, and said let's go with this take it to the TSC and see what they think. Then we did consult with Dana pray and Alyssa warley about it as well just to see if they have that inputs. Dan by the way is the guy who came up with the word hyper ledger. I started a company called hyper ledger there was acquired by digital asset, and then that name was part of DA's contribution at the beginning of the hyper ledger project. So, partly, you know, I mean he's been a great participant he might even be here on the call I'm not sure. No, but anyways, so it wasn't it wasn't something that we like broadcast out to the full marketing committee and got a lot of consensus around it's not. No, I don't want to oversell kind of you know this is the firm belief of the MC, you know that we need to do this. But it was at least in consultation with them. I feel like the people that have selected for that marketing committee probably have a better handle on marketing language than than I do, as somebody focuses more on engineering options so I'm all for getting their input in the way that's efficient. So, you know, I think, and I shared some of my thoughts here but, you know, we, and I know Brian you replied privately but basically at the end of the day we're starting and I think somebody else piled on this morning and made a similar point and that is, you know, we start getting so many things to talk about and there's no time to really get into them. And so we're not really doing ourselves any favors by, you know, going through the laundry list of all the things that are going on and it's a good. I mean there's a lot of good stuff going on but, you know, you don't you don't hear Sam Ruby running around saying talking about all 340 or whatever it is projects at Apache. You don't hear Mike Malinkovich talking about all 400 projects at Eclipse. Right. I mean, at some point you have to talk a little bit more in generalities about the cool stuff that's going on the collaboration. You know, the enthusiasm, the number of people and less about trying to sell each project on its merits or something like that. I think, you know, maybe that time has come, you know, when we have to be less about trying to sell the projects and sell that instead that's the fact of the organization, the collaboration, the innovation and so forth that's going on. Yeah, I mean, as I said, if we were at 300 projects that certainly we wouldn't do something like this. Right. If we were to talk if we did have a taxonomy than it would be, we'd start with that or or start with a few of the leading projects or something. But but you may you've heard me talk I do talk about all those other things too and I tend to if anything spend less time on the projects and on the value of the whole, then people might expect. But but you know, we are also different from Apache and I think certainly then it and possibly then eclipse where we're really about a portfolio of these projects like who the what the projects are is meaningful. Right. The fact that there is our ways they build upon each other and at other times compete with each other is meaningful. And that's that that meaning is what what I get across when I present. And again, I don't dwell on this slide, you know, it's it's a few minutes and then I go into other topics are more specifics. But just to get a lay of the land just to like to get that that initial top down view. I mean, I could keep using the old graphic in my in my talks but I and other people I think you use this graphic and their talks find value and in that kind of top top down view just to give a sense of what's the there there. I think one of the ways you could look at this is if you look at the drawing we've got frameworks you could change that to active and then to change that middle layer to incubation and leave the rest as it is. Because I think that's kind of actually what it looks like right now is you've got the frameworks there that are active. And then everything else. And I think that would make it fit all into one because really the top two sections are just projects. And if you want it, you could just have one section that was projects list all the projects and then the rest of the greenhouse but I mean those are a couple of different options where now you're not worried about. Oh this one falls into this bucket this one falls into that bucket. It really is just here's all the projects that we have and here's all the other pieces of the community that exists that you can get involved in. Yeah, I made a point on on the thread that I think we're getting too big I mean I use the existing greenhouse one. Chris and I did that in a presentation we were doing and it's actually fairly hard to talk to and try and give everything equal time it takes up a lot, and I think we're at a point where we can just list the main architectural levels if you will, and make sure we can include all the other special or different activities going on like groups and SIGs and things like that. Hyperledger is much more than just the projects. And so, to give just the projects the main thing and your main slide is really doing a disservice to the marketing committee and the special interest groups and the working groups, and all the other activities going on. Well that's why we added those to the greenhouse. Right, but it just makes the slide busier, which if it's too busy, you know, so you don't list each project out you just say here's like frameworks, you know. We have a few a few blockchain projects a few as the case. Silas has been politely raising his hand. Yeah, no just I slightly late seeing this but I've sent an email saying the same to the list but just to flag it, I think Burrow is in the wrong place. It has a component usage by some other projects in terms of the EVM, but that is about 10% of what it is. Burrow is a fully fledged BSE ledger with contract compile, deploy, event system, et cetera, et cetera. Yeah, I saw that. Yeah, don't mind being in two boxes, but you can frame work. Yeah, that's an easy change to make. Sorry for putting it down there. I just figured since the consensus layer in standalone builds on tenorment, right? But no disrespect intended. Yeah, no, I think I mean, yeah, we consider tenorment as a library. We use it in a slightly non-standard way, I guess. Yeah, no, I see why it's in that box, but I think that would be misleading generally. Okay, that's an easy kind of change to me. You know, it's hard to figure out what to do with feedback because I mean, I'm giving presentations where I'm using a greenhouse and I, and I've appreciated being able to show a map of some sort. I do feel like describing kind of differences in groups of functionality is still useful, even though a different way to slice it is, what's active, what's still an incubation. That's certainly a way to, you know, a different kind of chart that can be shown and useful. But just when people ask, what is Hyperledger? What's going on there? What are you guys doing? You know, what kind of tech are you working on?  It's hard not to, I mean, just talking verbally. Well, we've got some frameworks. We've got some modules and libraries for building. We've got some tools. I mean, that's how I would verbally start talking about things anyways, right? And again, yeah, at 200, you know, we did a different way to do it. But it's, I mean, it's the feedback from you all that we should stop using the greenhouse graphic in our presentations because it feels like something that we get value from. So should we just do something informally? I mean, I'd like the TSC to be behind what we do or give us feedback on things, but you know, it's kind of a marketing graphic. It's hard to design by committee, right? Right.  This is another evolution of it. I do think that you'll probably get better feedback from marketing people than the technical committee. I mean, we should definitely have a voice in making sure that things are technically correct. So like, like, like Silas clarifying the role of borough, but I don't see how you go in and talk about hyper ledger without having some sort of graphic. Okay. And on the taxonomy front in the thread of conversation, Sean did propose a slightly different layout. And I forgot I need to pull it up to read out what it was apologies for that. But you know, we could start with with that and come back with an updated graphic that shows that taxonomy layout or maybe just get conversions on the TSC on the list about what the right taxonomy is. And then and then we can create a new graphic from that. The taxonomy that you're also sort of asking for the game maybe game, which I feel is also a great job for people with marketing skills. And that's a double-edged sword. What was that? That's a double-edged sword asking the marketing people. I see difference has ended up for a while. Guys, my comment is that this is not just a slide that Brian presents. It is also on the landing page. The first slide that people see first graphic that people see and I believe it should be a live sort of live sort of image in the sense that you should be able to provide different views as drill downs or other kinds of ways in which you can explore that greenhouse. A static image. Well, right.  We don't have to follow there. But that's basically what you're describing a static graphic. That is not what I'm describing. That's not what I'm describing. I'm describing something that goes along with what Mark says, which is how the categories and then you can drill down into the categories and then you get help in exploring this, not as a bunch of a list of glyphs that is too confusing to the eye. It's a little more than, you know, it's a little more than just a list. It has to be dear. Okay, I think we're probably into the level of this discussion that's going to be less productive. Yeah, here's my suggestion. One is I'll repost Sean's proposed taxonomy. I had a few things I wanted to move from it. But if we could focus kind of the conversation on the list on kind of convergence on on that taxonomy, that might be the most productive thing. And then secondly, yes, that's right. We do use this on the homepage. We are making some changes to the, and this is the www hyperlature.org homepage. Obviously, we make some changes to how that's, you know, kind of works anyways, and what your lead off from that is. And so we're very open to talking about are there better starting points on the website for to help people understand kind of the shape of and the constituency of our of our community. Maybe something like the CNCF approach with the trailhead and and the listing and things is better. But we'll take that input and come back to you. But again, focus the TSE on the taxonomy might be the best approach for us in the short term. Does that make sense. Thanks and in your use of the word convergence along there also reminded me that that's that's a good thing to keep in mind when you think about the future state of hyper ledger and what that graphic can do for future proofing itself. Yes. Yeah, not to overload it to be an architectural diagram, but I maybe at some point it starts to remind us hey maybe these two projects should be looking for ways to to work together on a common API or a common use of a library or something. Yep. Okay, thank you Brian. All right. Next on the docket we have the smart contracts working group update. And I think most people have had a chance to review that do we have any questions at this time for Sophia. Well I'm here at one certain questions. Is there any Well people might be bringing their questions to mind is there any point or two or three that you would like to highlight on the working group progress or issues. Yes, sure. Yes, and there is a question from my side. Because Chris commented in this page. If you can please scroll down. And see Chris's comment. Okay. Well, Chris said that we are working on on a wiki page where we are trying to separate the two concepts of smart contracts and contracts and the architecture works volume two report was missing as a link. I surely added it, although I didn't have the time to review this work, which was started by Mark, who's a member of our Marco, sorry, who's a member of our working group. We are working on this product. It's not finished for sure. We're adding content links and from my side, I'm trying to make it as smaller as a search paper as it can be. I'm a researcher. So this is my point of view others are from the business side. So they are the point of view. And we're working on this product. So we added this link and we surely want to cooperate with other groups. I've also posted the blockchain three smart contracts in government three applications and informed the government watching group if they would like to announce it to their meetings and maybe people would like to add some use cases to this or review the whole paper. It's a complete work and also I would like to ask for the formal way how to put it for a review from the PC in order to be formal as a place for it. And also this is a process I would like to follow for the taxonomy. We will craft it. And now there's a full mind map and the table, which is driving from this mind map. So my first question is, which is the official way to issue a review request. And the second one is that we are trying to point out that we have pages that are working products. So we are adding a characteristic on the page title and whatever we think it is finished. We wanted to to let the TSE know and follow any formal way to make it formal and official. So my question is how can we say that we want to request a review for the blockchain three smart contracts. We are having also working group meeting next week on Wednesday, where I would be more, I would be able to hear more people. What would they think and how can we continue from what we have added. On the point on on process. I guess probably isn't written down anywhere. But, you know, we've been operating under the assumption, I think that, you know, as working groups get to the point where they're basically finishing a document and they want to publish it is that they bring it to the TSE for review. And, and I don't know do we need to, you know, Dan and Brian should we update the working group charters to make that a little bit clearer or the working group process but that I mean that's really what I was pointing out is it looked to me like the working group had already established well we're done with this and we're moving on to the next thing and in the past with all the other working groups their their process had been to get the working group to say okay we think this is done and then they submitted to the TSE for review. Yeah, I felt like that was at least in the charter of maybe the architecture working group, but it might not be broadly. Yeah, templated. For those of you who are engaged on the working group committee that we talked about last time. Could you please take note of that action item and make sure that that's in the working process. Yeah, I'll get it in the editor the notes right now. And then Sophia specifically sorry go ahead. All I was going to say is just a reminder that that one is on hold pending the life cycle review stuff because there's a lot of overlap in the people who had opinions and I want to get the life cycle stuff done before we start tackling the working group stuff. So I will keep adding to the issues in the discussions to make sure we're covering it but for the moment it's going to be. Yes. Okay. So if you specifically to your question then usually what we've done in those reviews that have come to the TSE is the paper should get circulated on the TSE mailing list and then you would expect probably something on the order of a month long period where people go in and review it in depth, depending on how long or novel it is and provide feedback and there might be multiple rounds. Okay, that sounds nice so I will issue them. I will send them the email with this paper this article that we have written and as I told you already we are going to work on it as a working group already. So everybody welcome to add and comment for sure and let's see how this goes and I will do the same thing with the taxonomy and we think it is finished product and we started from this taxonomy. We created a list of work products because we want people to be able to work in parallel. Not everybody is interested in the same subject some people are interested in this to rebuild smart contracts, some other interpretability, some others in the architecture so who crafted many working products for the people who expressed their interest in order to be able to add their content and I think that to combine all of them and create a new working product from them, driving from separate works from different people. This is what we mainly do here and I would be more than eager to hear what you think of the working group. We are trying to follow the rules to add the agenda denotes by the templates and here the people what they want what they need and try to make research in order to find out what are the hot topics and what we should work on. And also I try to participate, I can speak for myself, but I have seen others from the working group do this and we like to do this to participate in other working groups in order to see what they do and how can we have some cooperation on our working products or how can we contribute to their working products. So, that's mainly what we are doing from the from February, since now until now, and I'm open for your questions or any of your guidance. Please. So did you say that that you were adding a list of new working group work products. Yes, from the taxonomy that we think that it is a complete product. We have a mind map if it is easy for you to open the working group in order to describe it because it's really hard to describe by words. We took the taxonomy and created a list for each of separate page for this list for people to be able to work on each, let's say bullet of this mind map, each model of this mind map as a separate working product, in order to create separate working products which will make a full working product, because some of these refer to let's say functional requirements and other refer to computational requirements and other refer to the low area. So these are not combined in a full product, they are separate products which in the end will be a complete working product, which will derive from the separate working product of each of these concepts bubbles in the mind map. Okay, so I understand that's me that you are just dividing the work up amongst the team for the existing something that fits under the existing charter of the working group. If you want to make it smaller package. Yes. If at some point you want to expand or alter the charter of the working group and that's a good thing to provide the TSC so that we can have some discussion on that if necessary. Next, we're surely until now on track. As for the starter, the purpose of the group hasn't changed, we are evolving so we are creating more creative ways for people to participate because as I've told you if there is a complete product that we can work on such as we did with the blockchain, three smart contracts in government, maybe not everybody is interested in these. So there are many things that we can look from different angles. Some are researchers, some are technical people, some are businessmen, some are we have a lawyer who adds content for the low contracts. So we have different perspective for the same things, but the charter is until now followed. And I don't, I don't think that right now, it will be the right time to change it. We have a specific charter and scope. If, but in the future, something might must change. Yes, I will surely do discuss with the other people and see how can we update it and for sure inform you. Wonderful. All right, well, thank you for continuing to volunteer time on the working group and the rest of your working group contributors as well. Moving along, I think we have Bobby on the line to talk about the learning materials and documentation working group. Hi. Thank you, Bobby. Do we have any questions for Bobby. And just like we did well people are thinking of those questions. Bobby is there anything that you want to highlight particularly any issues or areas of feedback looking for from the TSE. Basically, we spent the last quarter just building out the framework to house documentation and learning materials. We're hoping for guidance like Sophia said from the TSE in the marketing department to kind of know what needs to be put in the frameworks. So again, the Wiki has a lot of structure to it, but now we need some framework building. So we're looking for guidance there membership is low as well. So as soon as we get more members will be able to be more effective. Well, just highlight one topic. We do have on the wiki page a resource page where people can go and look at open projects. So we're hoping new members we've made it easy to onboard with our new member page. We're hoping that new members can get a Linux login quickly. And edit the pages and know exactly what work needs to be done. For instance, we believe this summer we're going to be editing, helping Flavia help edit some chapters that she's been working on. We need to help borrow with some learning documentation. So we do have the framework ready for that we're just again waiting for more members and some guidance on how to get that done. I was just talking to a sawtooth contributor yesterday about content that they developed for the edX course back in the fall of 2018. Do you know if if the edX course was updated in that timeframe. What I know right now is that Flavia is working on the first three chapters broken out into the basic beginner business course. And then I know that Salona was mentioning that the remaining technical chapters were all going to be contributed by the different projects themselves and I think she was working on a framework to get contributors to put in so all I know is that like we're trying to work forward on the system to get the edits and so people with technical background can look at them and make sure they're accurate. Was your question regarding the sawtooth chapter in the introduction to hyperledger technologies course. It was this, it was specifically the simple supply chain content that we have in a GitHub repo like education sawtooth simple supply or something like that. Was there any other content in there as well as demo code. As far as I know that one is not available. That one never made it we did make the changes to the just the sawtooth chapter but we didn't do that. As of when I left. Okay. So, Bobby what is your handle on on rocket chat. It's, I believe it's Bobby. Um, yes, JN at the end. If you do go to the resource page and go to the on our homepage the resource page frameworks and tools and go down to sawtooth we are trying to collect all the documentation we can find. So I can show you what we have collected so far. And if the sawtooth people want to go in and edit that. I'm on the resource page now to see a sawtooth. Go down to it's under frameworks and tools. I see. And then sawtooth many layers. Yes, there's a lot of a lot of things going on. So that would be where the information we can collect from the working group lines up in each again project has it has a page. Okay, great. I will send this over to that contributor. Thank you. Thank you. So Dan, can I speak please. And I guess it's more directed at Mick, but the one thing I've seen in both of these reports today is trying to get members is an issue or a challenge. So again, it gets back to working group. Yeah, and I think, I mean, getting back to your point, I talked to Brian a little bit yesterday about exactly this problem. That that the working groups need to have. I think I will express my opinion. My opinion is that right now the working groups have to have a stronger sort of reason to be there has to be value and influence that can come out of them. And until that happens, it's going to be very difficult to get people to make commitments to something that's simply descriptive of what's already going on. So the situations where we've had the best input are those where we've been constructive. So, yeah, I tend to agree very strongly with that sentiment, Mick. And I don't remember. I can't I'm trying to remember if there was an email and I remember I don't remember who it was it said it but I kind of resonated with that sort of same thought and this this pertains to specifically to this particular working group and that essentially it's competing with the projects that are managing and doing their own documentation. And I, I, you know, I see that you know we're trying to get the edX teams to source material from the project teams but the project teams have stuff to do and things to get done and, and I think they look at this as sort of like well, you know, okay, but I'm kind of busy. Maybe the thing ought to be a little bit more about how do we ensure that we have a consistent approach to delivering documentation from the various projects, especially the DLTs or frameworks or whatever, you know, the things, whatever we end up calling them, such that, you know, their, their, you know, the documentation is easily consumable and, and, and we're able to sort of grow our our usage and our membership and so forth. And I, I mean, I think right now if I'm looking at this when I see it sort of working sort of at cross purposes to the various projects and I don't know what others think about that but that's sort of how I feel about this. And I'm not saying it's not good work that don't get me wrong. I just think that, you know, we need to be working more collaboratively as opposed to in silos that are not really talking to one another. And Chris, this does point out exactly the problem, which is that the working groups right now tend to be sitting outside the projects, integrated in the projects. And because of that, there's no way that they can be prescriptive. I mean, there's no way we can give teeth to the working group until it's the project participants who are the ones who are in the working groups. And this is this is the conundrum that we've been discussing is how do you give the working groups. I hate to use the word but I will authority in a way that the projects will accept that authority, because they are participants in it. And I'll just leave it at that. I don't want to dig into too far into this because we've got other things related to the life cycle and a bunch of others that are that are not independent of this problem. And I think we've agreed that we're going to sequence the the the concerns looking at the life cycle first. Go ahead. Go ahead. Go ahead. I think we should be a bit more agile in how we handle working groups in general. I think people will participate if they see value into it. Unfortunately, there's no way to force people. This is open source. It's all voluntary people participate where they see value in doing so. And so, personally, I think we should be much more willing to say, you know what, there's just not enough people interested in doing this right now. Either we close it. I mean, this is fairly low cost in creating working groups and shutting them down. And I think we should be, you know, and I'm not saying this for this particular working group, although I have raised the concern that this in some way competes with the project's documentation efforts. And so I don't want to say I told you so, but there's a little bit of this, you know, involved in this. But, you know, in general, I think as a rule, we should be much more, you know, agile in creating working groups and, you know, stopping them if we don't see anything to do right now. There's not enough momentum interest and then recreate them when the interest comes back, if it does. Well, and then, you know, attended to the, and Arno, it was you, I just couldn't recall. But, you know, attended to that would be, okay, so but then when we do create a working group, what are we doing to ensure that the project teams are actively going to participate. In other words, we should build that, make into the whole life cycle aspect of things that we sort of say, yeah, that's a great idea. We should talk about how to do smart contracts or yeah, that's a great idea. We should, we should get a working group that's looking at, you know, whatever. Yeah. And just, just to be clear with a very concrete example of this, you know, if, if for example, you want to claim that your platform provides privacy, that you now have to go to the architecture working group in order to get something that their approval for claiming that your project provides privacy. That gives some teeth to the working group, but it also means that the project participants become much more motivated to be a part of that working group and in order to get the definition as clear as possible so that they know what to do. I mean, there are some of these ideas that might help us get the teeth into it where we can encourage participation precisely because it is the thing that's driving, you know, integration across the project. And again, I'm just throwing ideas out there. There's nothing, there's nothing fixed. But I think those are the kind of things that that I'd like to be able to talk about at some point in this when we get back to the working group parts of it. But would it would it make sense over time to look at centralizing things like documentation so there's a working group that does documentation across all the projects. So it's consistent when when people go to read it. Things like that it would also help some of the smaller projects, because, you know, it would give resources that they may might not otherwise get and would hold the project back. Brian says hand up for a while. And I think Mark you touch on the fundamental tension here which is to what degree does a working group like this create materials and in doing that create them that are hyperledger why that are somewhat standardized that help the smaller projects, or to a degree are they really about just trying to set common standards across the different projects so that because there is like this great documentation call and working group within fabric that's run by Anthony. I doubt I want to give credit to that process that seems to work really well. And so fabric docs are in a pretty good shape. But, you know, the goal over all of these working groups right is to be the glue between our projects right across the different projects to help harmonize or set to have in a way that projects help each other to, you know, like in architecture, Oh, you're working on that we're doing this, maybe we should combine efforts or learn from your mistakes or or that sort of thing. And so, I went back and looked at the Charter for the learning materials working group. And, and it isn't quite clear on on, you know, because it does seem to suggest a lot of content creation. And, and, and that's obviously a challenge if you don't have people from the projects involved. Right. Not impossible but but from those involved and so maybe we just want to involve evolve in this in for the learning materials, working group, kind of specifically what we're on that spectrum, it aims to lie. And the more that it's about creating content or managing things like the MOOC, the more it needs participants from the projects themselves to be involved. And needs to find a way to not to not say this is additive and charity and would be nice if but to say hey actually this is pretty important to the projects and the projects to realize that that's important to them. Hi, it's Bobby. Again, we were just discussing how we can collect the materials that are out there and make sure they look and feel the way that the message we want to portray. So again, the participation is needed from the people who are actually developing the materials, especially as they get more technical. Yes, and, and thank you for for suffering through some of the broader discussion there about working group health Bobby. I think that that the course of this discussion is also run through here so thanks for providing the update. And then a little bit of discussion on on the chat there. If we could get an update on the life cycle committee next week that would be great. And once we do have several things that are starting to stack up aligned with that work or the the output of that. I think that will be helpful for all of us. And let's see here. I think that brings us to the end of our agenda today. Thank you everybody for your time. And we will talk to everybody again next week. Thank you. And thank you Sophia and Bobby. Thank you all.


الحمد لله نعمده ونستعينه ونستغفره ونؤمنه به ونتوكل عليه ونشهد أن لا إله إلا الله وحده لا شريك له ونشهد أن سيدنا ونبينا محمدا عبده ورسوله أما بعد قال الله تبارك وتعالى أعود بالله من الشيطان الرديم بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم حاميم والكتاب المبين إن أنزلناه في ليلة مباركة إن كنا منذرين فيها يفرق كل أمر حكيم أمر من عندنا إن كنا مرسلين صدق الله العظيم وعن عائشة رضي الله تعالى عنها قالت فقدت رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم ذات ليلة فخرجت أطلبه فإذا هو بالبقيعة رافعا رأسه إلى السماء فقال يا عائشة كنت تخافين أن يحيف الله عليك ورسوله قلت ومالي من ذلك ولكني ظننتو أنك أتيت بعض نسائك فقال الله عز وجل ينزل ليلة النصف من شعبا إلى السماء الدنيا فيغفروا لي أكثر من عدد شعر غنم قلب رواه الترميدي مرسولين وصديقين في إسلام today as we all know is ليلة نصف شعبا middle of the month of shaaban also known as ليلة البرا or شبب برات as it is known in the subcontinent and other places where مرسولين مرسولين are using that term and this is one celebration which will not be found anywhere in the Middle East nobody celebrates نسف شعبا or شبب برات for the simple reason that as we read in the whole of Quran صورة الدخان where certain verses which I have just recited let me give you the translation of those verses it is by the way surah number 44 verses one to five by the book that makes things clear ونحن نقوم برات ليلة نصف شعبا for we wish to warn against evil in that night is made distinct every affair of wisdom by command from our presence for we send revelation That's what Allah سبحانه وتعالى speak about this ليلة مباركة ليلة مباركة means a blessed night but if you go through the interpretation of the Holy Quran the most prominent one of them you will find that the vast majority of these scholars and the vast majority of the interpreters of the whole of Quran المفسرون they do not agree although there are like Akrema رضي الله عنه his all is that these verses are about the Laila نصف من شعبا for Shabi Barat but it's a very rare view of only few individuals who give that meaning to these verses actually these verses according to the majority of the Mufassirian and the scholars are about ليلة القدر that is شبا قدر or night of power which falls during the holy month of Ramadan and that night is known to be according to majority of these scholars on the 27th night of the month of Ramadan and according to some narrations and hadith saying the Prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم you should be seeking the night of power in the last 10 days odd nights meaning 21st, 23rd, 25th, 27th and 29th night فيها يفرق كل أمر حكيم as it is said او انزل now في ليلة القدر is tremendous relationship between these two words and between these Suras coming from the whole of Quran and obviously it is very well known in certain communities that this is a very blessed night so I have investigated the whole matter and I came to know that the vast majority of the narrations regarding this night do not hold that status which we can call as an authentic status or صحيح or متواتر حدث I have recited one hadith in front of you let me give you the translation of that that is the hadith which is reported by Imam Thirmevi you know Imam Thirmevi is one of the collectors of the hadith as you all know that we know 6 books and we find them to be the most authentic collections of hadith of Prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم and those 6 books are Bukhari, Muslim, Thirmevi, Ibn Maja, Nasa'i and Abu Dawid these are the 6 most authentic collections but the hadith or the sayings and the tradition of Prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم is not limited to those 6 we have many other books and all those were many many books where you will still find the authentic sayings and traditions of Prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم anyway about this night سيد عايشة سديبا رضي الله تعالى عنها is speaking about that when I was sleeping and I look for Prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم around me I did not find him next to me and that was most probably her turn you know and I would like to bring to your notice one interjection here to remind you that in the west in the last 100 years 60,000 books about Islam were written by non-Muslims 60,000 books I'm not talking about the books which are written by Muslims only by non-Muslims the majority of them are from western countries and they have everything but Islam in those books one of the major charges against Prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم is they say that the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم was a womanizer and sex maniac this is what they say in there I'm mentioning that because we have lots of youngsters here you might hear those kind of thing in your classes in your colleges so you will be well equipped to give the proper answer to that because in my classes I teach Alhamdulillah in four community colleges and in Birkley and GTU Graduate Theological Union as well and we have these discussions all the time it's a very important thing our children should know and should be educated about so when they say that and they ask questions about it I ask them you tell me suppose if somebody is womanizer and sex maniac when that person is sexually active so they say between 16 and 30, 35 what do you think about it when any opinions when would a person be active if if it's a young age okay that's number one and we'll go for sweet 16 younger women am I right what happens look into the realities of the life of Prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم when he was 25 years old and before that he never married and he was not one of those who have any unlawful relationship with anyone he was approached by Sayyida Khadija رضي الله تعالى عنها and Sayyida Khadija رضي الله تعالى عنها as one of the two people non-prophets who received the greetings from Allah سبحانه وتعالى Sayyidina Jibril came and said to Prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم that Allah سبحانه وتعالى sending his salam to Sayyida Khadija رضي الله تعالى عنها and asking is she pleased with me I am well pleased with her that was the status of Sayyida Khadija رضي الله تعالى عنها and when she asked for the hand of Prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم she was a very famous business lady who was sought in marriage by many influential leader of Makkah but she decided not to accept anyone of them because she was already married twice and she was a widow she gave birth to three children before that and she was 40 years old and this marriage took place and Prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم was with her for next 25 years in that 25 years he never married another woman when Sayyida Khadija رضي الله تعالى عنها died she was 65 years old and Prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم was 50 years old after that after few years the message was rapidly spreading especially after the migration to Medina and women's were as many as men half of the community it's not only men who had the questions women had their questions and the nature of their questions mostly was private kind of questions and a prophet cannot deal with a woman on one to one basis so Allah سبحانه وتعالى instructed Prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم to take number of wives to be the agencies who will be taking the questions of the women and bringing to the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم and bring back the answers to them out of 11 wives of Prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم the only wife who was virgin was Sayyida Aisha رضي الله تعالى عنها all the others were either divorced or widows and one of them was so old that there was no physical intimacy between the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم was Sayyida رضي الله تعالى عنها who gave her turn to Sayyida Aisha صدق رضي الله تعالى عنها so a person who is active between that age then I asked my student that who he was with one wife who was 15 years older than him for 25 years and after that you know for next few years there was no and then when he married there were say between 54 and coming few years and that was when the message was like described in Surah number 110 إذا جاء أنا سول الله و الفاتحة ورا أي تناصة يدخلونا في دين الله you see people entering the message of Allah سبحانه و تعالى in multitude that was the time when he was instructed and when Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم died there were nine behind those agencies and after the death of Prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم the most prominent companions of Prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم used to say that Sayyida Aisha صدق رضي الله تعالى عنها is such a powerful religious and Islamic source that whenever we have any problem in understanding Islam we go to أم المؤمنين Sayyida Aisha رضي الله تعالى عنها and she has an answer for everything and that was the secret when he Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم was instructed to marry her in young age so she can absorb everything all the message and all the knowledge of Prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم this is what happened like you may have heard philosopher saying you give me a child before he is seven and he will be mine forever that is the educational process which took place anyway so this was Sayyida Aisha رضي الله تعالى عنها who is saying that I did not find Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم next to me so I came out looking for him and I found him in Jannatul Baqia you know Jannatul Baqia is a مقدرة or graveyard where people are buried and Prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم was there praying for the dead in that night this is something which is authentic because it is coming from صحيح ترميزي one of the most authentic collection out of six authentic collections and it was also confirmed by مولانا أشرف عالي ثانوي and other scholars that what we find about the ليلة نسف شعبان the Hadith of Sayyida عايشا سديقا رضي الله تعالى عنها when she came to the graveyard she saw the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم is raising his head towards the sky and praying and then we talked to her asking that did you think that you have lost me or so she said no no no I was worried about you know a woman of course who is not a prophet she may have those kind of you know limitations or shortcomings you know you have heard the beautiful story from سورة التحرين سورة number 66 that story tell us about the wives of Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم that they were the kind of individuals and human being who had those limitations with all of us have you know let me tell you that story it's a very interesting one where the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم when he had these number of wives his habit was to go and visit, eat and every single one of them between عصر and مغرب every single day and then after مغرب and after عايشا مغرب is that night but why does he visit every day between عصر and مغرب to find out if they have any immediate need you know in today's term we can say blood milk have everything you need anything or so on to find out or provide that and obviously as you know that Islamic marriage means that the husband and wife fill each other's heart with happiness and try to find out each other's expectations and fulfill them without being asked so say that زيناب بنتجاحش رضي الله وطعال عنها knew about Prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم that he loved the honey tray so every single day when Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم زيناب بنتجاحش رضي الله وطعال عنها the honey drink will be ready now it was so frequently done so regularly done that every other wife came to know so say that عايشا رضي الله وطعال عنها says to say that so he must be drinking the honey drink there so when he comes what we are going to do we will do this yes of course Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم was such a clean person he was particularly offended to anybody order or any kind of bad smell or anything you know he was the best example and role model for the entire humankind with the witness in the glorious words of the Holy Quran لقد كان لكم في رسول الله يوسبط وحزنه he is the role model in everything so what happened when he came they did this they did this the Prophet said I did not eat or drink anything that smells bad all I did is I had a honey drink and wallahi by God if you don't like the honey the honey is haram on me from today it is unlawful on me even a Prophet does not have the authority to make something حلال حرام حلال the surah number 66 the name of the surah is اتحريم اتحريم means to make something lawful unlawful and the first two verses are my point of reference yeah oh Prophet why do you take something that الله made lawful as unlawful and the most important glorious words of Allah when Allah is describing he said تبتغي مرضاتا أسواتي you seeking the good pleasure of your wives والله غفور الرحيم الله is after forgiving merciful قد فرض الله فرض الله لكم and it is obligatory upon you to break these kind of earth where حرام and حلال are involved where you make something lawful unlawful and that is according to Islamic jurisprudence the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم broke his and of course you have to you know that you are far a compensation for breaking an oath either you have to free a slave because Islam never ever wanted slavery to continue there for in many different ways the freedom was given to them or feed 10 people or fast for three days but that's not my question my question here is why Allah سبحانه وتعالى named that Surah as اتحريم and kept those two verses which we have to recite up to the day of judgment to remind us that how far Prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم went in pleasing his wives and in saving his families and so on the word because the Prophet is role model and it has two things here you must go as much as possible as long as you are not making lawful unlawful you have to go and save because it is you know according to Islamic instruction reconciliation is always a better option recommended by Allah سبحانه وتعالى so if somebody has that kind of situation this story will help them and I just wanted to interject so Said Aisha was the one who was involved in that story as well so Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم she said to him that I thought you are going to another wife that's why I got worried and I came looking for you then صلى الله عليه وسلم said to Said Aisha رضي الله عنها and she is reporting that that Allah سبحانه وتعالى comes down in this night to the sky that is facing this world سماء الدنيا you know that is called we have three we have seven levels of the skies so one is the highest one about near the throne or عرش of Allah سبحانه وتعالى that is the seventh one and the first one is facing this world which we can see on so to that sky and then of course and he will provide the and forgiveness for the people more than the sheeps of قلب قلب was famous about having tremendous amount of sheep so if you take go count the hair of a sheep you won't be able to count that means unlimited forgiveness is spoken about in this particular night so what is proven in this night is the visiting of قبرستان or you can say graveyard by prophet Muhammad ليستغفر للمؤمنين والمؤمنين to ask forgiveness of Allah سبحانه وتعالى for believing men and women وشهداء and for the martyrs in this night also there is a hadith but that is not authentic hadith which says that Allah سبحانه وتعالى decide in this night about the people that who is going to die this year and who is going to be living up to the next year and so on تقطع جال الناس من شعبان إلى شعبان from this month to the next شعبان but that is not and also there are hadith which speak about that when Allah سبحانه وتعالى comes down as we have learned from the hadith عايشة سبق ربي الله تعالى عنها that means at that time the angels are instructed to call upon the people ألا من مستغفر فأغفر الله is there anyone who is seeking the forgiveness of Allah سبحانه وتعالى and Allah سبحانه وتعالى says so I can forgive the person ألا من مسترزق فأرزق is there anyone who want to ask for the sustenance so I can provide the sustenance and it goes on in many different ways again here the research scholars and the authentic information is wanted to come and watch you because for last 3 days Prophet Muhammad was speaking about you that you are going to جنة to the garden of paradise so I came down to find out what do you do what is this extraordinary act which you are doing so I can do that and I can be like you so the man told me he says that whatever you have seen that's it so I turn my back I was about to leave he called me back say come back come back one thing which you could not see let me tell you that he said by the grace of Allah سبحانه وتعالى and by the training of Prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم from the moment I became Muslim I always try to keep my heart healthy what is the meaning the meaning is as it is said in سورة البقرة verse number 2 verse number 165 those who believe they are strongest in their love for Allah سبحانه وتعالى and I do not let any impurities enter my heart jealousy is impurity ill feeling is impurity enmity is impurity all those bad things I never let and if I have any feeling in my heart I will never go to bed unless I go to the person I say I am sorry please forgive me I keep my heart pure and free so it can be the seat of love of Allah سبحانه وتعالى I learned that the purity of heart is the greatest thing or Abdullah Abdullah says I screamed and I shouted this is the one this is the one which made you that important that Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم gave that forecast that you will be going to nothing else you see it is internal purity has to be reflected with your external action that comes from and the heart is the seat you know we have to take care of four things but we only take care of one thing that is our physical body you see we keep on feeding it we keep on wearing makeup we keep on beautifying ourselves we go long way in picking and choosing and matching our dress and everything but we have to give equal attention to four things in us that Allah سبحانه وتعالى has kept the first one is spirit that is coming from Allah سبحانه وتعالى and you can only nurture that by connecting with Allah سبحانه وتعالى the greatest thing of that is remembrance of Allah and Allah says in words number 14 surah number 20 صلى الله عليه وسلم for my remembrance establish the regular prayer second thing is your body that is a container of your روح so make sure you don't let any harm enters your body because if you allow that you will lose the ability to firmly stand for the truth third thing is your intellect because the first commandment of Islam is read educate yourself and you have to continue to fill your mind with education but what kind of education علمنا في عن beneficial education see beneficial what is the beginning the whole purpose of life of a Muslim no matter in what profession you are everything is Islamic we don't have anything secular as long as it is beneficial education and you are trying to take the humanity one step forward even if it is a very small step you have fulfilled your duty and responsibility because Allah سبحانه وتعالى has said that I have given you the whole universe for under your disposal is your duty find out the secrets and make this place better for yourself and for coming generations so your mind your mind is the third thing what is the fourth thing your heart which is the seat of love of Allah سبحانه وتعالى Allah سبحانه وتعالى says I created the time and space time and space cannot take me yet Allah lives in the heart of a believer that is the kind of love so let me conclude with the four people in these blessed night in general and about this night four kind of people will not be forgiven one is the person who is taking intoxicants drugs of any kind whether they are alcohol liquid form powder form leaf form pill form any kind that person will not be forgiven unfortunately we muslim can contribute to the well-being of America where minimum number of the drunk people and those who have very serious drinking problem are 55 million 55 million in this country that is one way we can contribute Allah will not forgive second a person who disobeys his parents but disobedience in one way allowed if the parents ask you to commit share and assign partners to Allah سبحانه وتعالى then you are not allowed to listen to Surah 31 verse number 13 and 14 you can read there when Allah says don't listen to your parents if they ask you to do share but still give them the companionship on the basis of maruf maruf is more than justice you have a duty and responsibility to look after even your non muslim parents by comforting them and providing their needs volume the time is almost over otherwise with each one I would have told you some stories volume a person who is wrongfully treating other people for answers in Surah verse number 279 you don't do any injustice to anyone allow anyone to do injustice to you it's not only doing injustice to others is haram in Islam but also to be victim is haram people supposed to stand for their rights people supposed to speak for their rights don't just sit back and be indifferent about you know you have to stand for your rights that's why the Quran says at the beginning verse number 6 لا يحب الله الجعر بالصوي من القول إلا من ظلم what is the meaning الله سبحانه وتعالى does not allow to be spoken loudly the evil accept by a victim of aggression إلا من ظلم only Muslim can speak about that so and the principle of Islamic Sharia one of the principle is what does it mean meaning you do not harm anyone and you do not let anyone harm you and the fourth one is the one who cuts the relationship he said to your brother oh I will never talk to you oh to your father or to your mother or to your friends in Islam we have three levels of relationship the first one is blood relatives Surah Al-Baqara verse 23 you cannot cut that if you cut that you are equivalent to the one who is spreading mischief in the land number 2 is faith relatives believers Surah 49 verse number 10 all the believers are one brother if there is a dispute for us you have to reconcile between any two individual who are fighting and verse number 9 is 5 you know a group of the believers if they are fighting each other the whole Ummah has the duty and responsibility to bring peace to them and the third one is Surah Al-Hujurat verse number 13 where Allah SWT says the entire humankind is one family coming from Adam and Eve and every single Muslim is instructed and commanded لتعارف Allah says I have divided you into the nations and tribes so you can know each other تعارف cannot happen one way it is reciprocation of when you go and find out about the people they will be finding out about you and when we do that we can remove the hatred from the people that is the recognition and that will make you a person of Taqwa and a person of Taqwa is higher in the sight of Allah SWT I am sorry the time is over I love to speak to you Insha'Allah some other occasion the time is over if anybody has any question I would rather prefer to take your question and give you the answer instead of going and having the refreshment you can have it after yes this is an age-long dispute and there are many different stories about it let me put it in a very different way when Prophet SAW was raised as a prophet if you go back to the history you will find that everywhere in the world the normal behavior of the human being was a woman was considered to be fit for marriage as soon as she enters her monthly cycles that is what the qualification for a woman that is one thing the second thing is you cannot judge anyone by the standard of 21st century going back to the 7th century number 3 everybody in those days the women were so abused that people had multiple wives concubines slave girls and all that Islam came and Islam is the only religion which gave the limitation to all those things so coming back to SAW I can only tell you one story which happens with me the first time when I came from London to America to lead the Karabi prayer in MCA of Santa Clara Masjid that was in 1983 a person who came to pick me up from the airport his name was Majid and with him he had a daughter whose name was Majid they still live in Santa Clara I hope you won't mind me giving you his name so you can even confirm from him I was really surprised he asked me Brother Khalil can I ask you a question he said yes he said can you tell me what is the age of my daughter she was fully grown I said she must be between 18 or 20 he said she is 9 years old she is 9 years old what is the meaning of that I said why you asking me that he said I just ask because there is a lot of you and cry about I brought this evidence my own daughter she is 9 years old look at her nobody except when I tell them that she is 9 years old I give her the age 18 to 20 so there are some girls who are grown up like that but it's not that question the question is no marriage a prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم took place without receiving the commandments and instructions from Allah as I touched the point probably the most important reason for Sayyeda Aisha who is the only virgin whom the prophet married is preservation of the knowledge of the prophet who is a prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم because Islam has raised the status of women in such a way that she becomes the source individual even for the men who were the most prominent companions of Prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم who is taking to that high status and providing that that education how it turns people so I hope it might satisfy you might not satisfy you that is my answer to that there are narrations which go between 9 years to 17 years which speaks that he was when the marriage was consummated you know some says 17 years the majority of the view is for 9 years but this is without any shadow of doubt that she was fully grown and she was a woman she was not a child she was in her monthly cycle I was told to pray okay let us pray to Allah صلى الله عليه وسلم صلى الله عليه وسلم صلى الله عليه وسلم by reading Quran in the language in which Allah has authored in Arabic by understanding the meaning and message by implementing the teaching and by teaching somebody else the message of Allah صلى الله عليه وسلم by following Prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم in his role model in every aspect of our day to day life may Allah bless this gathering may Allah سبحانه وتعالى guide us to fulfill our responsibility in considering every single night as or so we can get nearness to Allah صلى الله عليه وسلم yes brother you have a question yes I just want to know is one of the books of Hadid they consider it to be authentic yes it is one of the first books that was the first book of Hadid and it is considered to be صحيح


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