Hi everybody. My name is Charles Dillard. I'm a principal planner with the Office of City Planning at the City of Burlington. We are going to start tonight's meeting with a couple brief presentations. One about the proposed South End Innovation District zoning work. Another about a related project that is the multimodal transit feasibility study that is being conducted by a consultant BHB for the Regional Planning Office. Then we will turn it back to us at City Planning. We are going to be using a novel software Miro. It's an online app for engagement. I'm going to give a sort of orientation to how we use the app. Rest assured that we understand that there's probably going to be a learning curve. In the breakout rooms to which you'll be assigned, there's going to be ample opportunity for varying levels of comfort and ease of use here. If the meeting tonight is seeming a bit too complex or you're finding it hard to follow, then rest assured that your meeting facilitator from the Office of City Planning will be able to sort of help you engage and provide input, which we're very much looking forward to. I think we're probably going to have folks rolling in. I'm going to go ahead and give a very brief presentation about the zoning district. Then, like I said, you'll hear from our friends at BHB. Then we will get into Miro. Without further ado. All right. Can everybody see my screen here? Great. All right. This is again a meeting for the South End Innovation District. It's a virtual public meeting. That is the next in what's been a series of public engagement opportunities. We've been to the Ward 5 NPA a couple times now, actually three times now, I think, to sort of speak and have in-depth listening sessions with those members. We had an in-person public meeting last week at Generator, which is just down on Sears Lane. Had some really great conversations with members of the public and tonight's exercise is really going to basically replicate what we did at last week's in-person meeting. There will be additional opportunities for engagement that we'll talk about later in the evening. All of the activities that we're taking part in tonight will be left open for some time for you all to sort of engage with at your own speed over the next over the coming days. So what is the Innovation District? Many of you, if you were around and participated in the Plain BTV South End planning process, are probably aware that the sort of notion of an Innovation District really had its genesis in the Plain BTV South End area plan. Recognizing that there was a transition that was ongoing in Burlington's economy and on the waterfront in the South End, particularly, the community and the city sort of decided that this part of the city is sort of right for some transition in the way it sort of is oriented in terms of Lane use. And since that time, there has been a sort of good amount of office activity. You've seen things like the Innovation Center and HULA have been very successful in the last few years. What's important to note and what probably a question that many of you probably have about the Innovation District is why is housing being considered now? So in the Innovation District, in Plain BTV South End rather, you probably recall or if you don't, the Plain actually did say that housing should not be permitted ultimately. That's what was adopted. There was a detailed discussion about this, about whether housing and residential usage should be permitted in this future Innovation District. Ultimately, the plan that was adopted and approved again said no residential uses. But since then, in the last five, six years, I think it's become apparent to so many folks in the community, including many we've heard from, you know, in the last few months when we've been engaging on the Innovation District is that housing, there is truly a housing crisis across the sort of spectrum. There's a lack of housing, there's lack of affordable housing, there's a lack of housing specifically for artists and makers who really make the South End what it is. And so reflecting that the mayor and the current administration and its Housing as Human Rights Action Plan set a goal to look at the South End as a place where new homes could be created. And so that's really what the Innovation District is in its sort of conceptual stage right now. So what are we talking about in terms of the boundaries? So the Innovation District is here in this, this is the sort of working boundary and there's actually going to be an exercise tonight where we're looking for input on sort of what the ultimate boundary should be for the district. But the boundary is roughly between Howard Street and Sears Lane and west of Pine Street. So nothing today east of Pine Street and the working boundaries. We're focusing here on the sort of larger properties, most of which have sort of large surface parking lots where other sort of underdeveloped or underdeveloped portions. And again, this was the area that was highlighted in Plan BTV South End as a Innovation District. So this is just a rendered illustration from that plan. So you can sort of see what the vision was at the time for the Innovation District. And so we're going to be asking questions tonight that sort of trying to help us refine what this vision should be and how it should develop, you know, should build, should we allow buildings taller than what's shown here? You know, what should, how should the streets and public spaces look and feel? What sort of land uses should be permitted in the Innovation District? So here's the intent here. So the intent of the Innovation District again is, you know, ultimately to create an evolving vibrant urban district that has a mix of uses, building scales and types. It should be a place potentially for hundreds of new homes and neighbors, but also a place that carries on the legacy of sort of parts and making and light manufacturing that have existed in the South End, you know, throughout Burlington's history. And to tie it all together, it should be a 21st century district that, you know, reflects innovation in all of its facets, including the way that it should limit emissions, the way that it should protect and clean our water, and also foster a healthy ecosystem. Just a little bit more detail. This is a tough link to follow, but we'll share that in the chat as well. So the Innovation District's story map is a really interesting sort of catalog of information about the existing conditions, about the history of the area, about some of the sort of facets of the zoning framework that we're working on. So I urge you all to, after tonight's meeting, you know, in the coming days, weeks, check out the story map. There's a lot of really cool information there. Sarah Morgan from our team led up the creation of that. So if you have any questions about that story map, you know, Sarah and mine and Megan's information are on our website. So before we kick it over to VHB to talk about the feasibility study for the transit and multimodal center, I'm just going to lay out some next steps here. So July 12, next week's planning commission, we are planning on updating the commission on the works of date, but most importantly on what we've heard from members of the public, from what we've heard from members of the Ward 5 NPA and other stakeholders. In July and later in July and August, we plan on taking a draft zoning amendment to the planning commission. And obviously, it should be known that, you know, that amendment will obviously incorporate as much as can the public input. And there will be additional engagement events in the next sort of month or two and on throughout the sort of public process planning commission and city council. Thenatively, we are planning on setting up at the farmers market and in addition, we're looking at opportunities to take some of the sort of physical engagement material out to different parts of the city.  So if you're already plugged in, keep checking out the website, we'll send out glass on the front porch forum and everywhere else we can to keep you updated. And ultimately, the goal is by the end of the year to have an adopted zoning amendment that would permit, you know, a range of different uses, including residential use in the south end. So with that, I'm going to stop sharing and then we're going to have a presentation from our friend, David, Celadino, and Jeff Dubia. Okay, great. Thank you, Charles. And see if I can share my screen here. Let's see, is that showing up for everyone? Yes. Good. Okay. So yeah, thank you, Charles. And as Charles alluded to this, this is a bit of a diversion, but it's this project specifically lands kind of right in the heart of this innovation district. And so there's a lot of overlap between the discussions. And so it made a lot of sense to kind of integrate these two presentations. And we're just going to do a quick, quick kind of high level overview. And we can certainly get into questions as we get further on in the session. So with this, this, what we've been tasked with, we're working with the CCRPC in the city of Burlington to look at it's essentially a feasibility study to develop a parking garage, transit center, and potentially some other uses, including housing on at 68 Sears Lane. So we're looking at feasibility. Are there any major red flags that were preclude parking garage and transit center for moving forward on that parcel? Looking at parking demand, how many cars would want to park in this location? Developing a couple of options, along with cost estimates for that facility, identifying where funding could come from to build this, and then communicating that information as we're doing tonight out to the public. In terms of project schedule, we kicked this off back in April. We had our first round of public outreach really just to get general input back in May. We've now developed some alternative sketches based on the input we received at the first public meeting. And Jeff will speak to that in a second. From here, we then move into kind of developing the preferred concept plans coming out of the sketches we've come up with so far, based on input tonight and other places we've been seeking public input. We'll have one more round of public outreach in September, and then we'll wrap up the report, essentially talking about the feasibility of this assessment, a feasibility of this facility in September. So here is the study area in yellow. The yellow box shows the 68 Sears Lane parcel. It's a three and a third acre parcel. Just to the north is 125 Lakeside that's privately held. The Sears Lane parcel is owned by the city. Just north of that 125 Lakeside is owned, is a private entity, just over six acres there. And as many of you are aware, just to the east of this, of both sites, is the Champlain Parkway right of way. This graphic here just shows on the left, it shows kind of how the, how things looked a couple of weeks ago before construction started, and the right shows a diagram of how it will look once the dust settles on the construction of the parkway. And this, just from the previous graphic, I just wanted to show there is, so this is from the Plain BTB South End, and just to note there was a parking structure noted kind of right in this location. So this is kind of building off of those recommendations from the Plain BTB study. We're also building off of there was a study done that BHB had done back in 2006, looking at a similar facility in a similar location. That was, the report was a thorough report, but essentially kind of put on the shelf until now, until the point at which the Champlain Parkway was moving forward. And so that is at long last coming to fruition. So the Parkway is moving forward. As we just heard from Charles, there's some residential zoning overlay potential here. So maybe opportunities to integrate residential use, and then the plans for 125 Lakeside are also advancing. So all of the stars are seem seeming to align for some potential development here on the site. So in terms of the development program itself, things that we're looking at, transit center, so an opportunity for, you know, similar to what's on St. Paul Street, down to the downtown transit center, kind of a place where buses can converge, we'll have some EV charging stations, some shelters, some places indoor facilities for to wait out of the weather. In addition to that, a parking garage right now, we're assuming up to 600 parking spaces, looking at potential for housing on the site, and then maybe some other uses. Our charge is to develop two different concept plans, one with housing and one without housing. And I think with that, I'll kick it over to Jeff to just run through those concepts. So you'll see the, we actually have developed three concepts so far. One has no housing to have housing. So with that, I will pass it off to Jeff. Yeah, thank you, David. So this first concept, this is one we had created without housing. So we're showing the garage on the right along the Champlain Parkway and then the transit center in red along the railroad tracks, anticipating that a lot of the shuttle service would come from the north and sort of travel through the loop heading south. That dislocation of the transit center also gives us an opportunity if there is a future rail platform in Canopies to sort of integrate those two different functions with the rail and the buses. This concept sort of sets the transit center within a larger open space there along the tracks and maintains a connection from the Burlington bike path and the lakeside neighborhood on through this transit center site to the Champlain Parkway, linking up with that multi-use path along the Parkway. This does separate the transit center function from the main roadway that we're anticipating that might connect Sears Lane to Lakeside Avenue, but we are exploring how this 68 Sears Lane transit center could function independently of any future development that might go on 125 Lakeside Avenue. With this option, with all options really, we're assuming that the garage would be four stories at about 140 spaces per level. It gets us to about the 560 spaces that we would anticipate needing for the institutions, Champlain College and UVM, as well as some for public parking on larger events or Pine Street overflow, things of that nature. We are showing how bus Canopies in that number three there could sort of capture buses traveling north or buses traveling south, and how there could be an opportunity to have additional spaces for charging stations or buses sort of just waiting in their circuit. So, David, if we jump to the next one, these are a few images you might recognize the one on the left, the downtown transit center in Burlington. We are in conversations with GMT to understand how big of a facility they might need. At this point, they're thinking it might be something similar to the downtown transit center, so it could have a similar look and feel, and even with the Canopies the way we're showing them, it could function largely the same. On the right, I think we'd be looking at a nicer facade treatment, if you will, for the garage itself, but this sort of indicates how the transit center could be integrated into the garage structure. So we'll be looking at that a little bit more as we go forward. Next. So the next two concepts explore this idea of integrating housing into the site. So the building on the left that you see, this is the ground floor of a housing building that we're suggesting could be proposed on site. This ground floor is a little unique in that we're maintaining that connection from the bike path through the site in that gray seven area to get folks to the transit center, but also traveling onto the Champlain Parkway. We need to rework this a little bit. We now understand that that needs to be emergency egress for vehicles and in the event of a flood. So things might shift around a little bit, like the transit center might shift up into that parking area that you're seeing in six, but above this level would be three plus levels of housing sort of adjacent to the development and the transit center itself. The footprint for the garage remains the same as in concept one. It's got a similar function to it, but does integrate this idea of housing. We're also suggesting that there could be a connection on the second floor connecting folks from the garage to the transit center, just knowing how tough Vermont winters are, but we'll also be exploring maybe integrating the transit center itself into the garage. So that's sort of a refinement that we've got moving forward. We jump to the next one, David. This is just a quick diagram to indicate how the ground level functions a bit differently from the upper levels. So again, on top of this ground level, we'd have three floors of housing, three plus, and that bottom one would be a bit open to maintain access from folks on the West to get to the transit center or pass by on their bikes to get to the multi-use path. Next, there's a great precedent just down the road on 89 in Montpelier. This is the new downtown transit center. It functions a bit differently in that the buses circulate underneath the housing levels that you're seeing in brick, but it's nice that it gives the transit center itself its own identity as compared to the housing. So it certainly is a good precedent for us looking at the site in this sort of option. Next, then concept B2. This one's a bit different in that it integrates housing and different functions within the garage itself. So imagine wrapping the garage with housing or some other sort of use, whether it be a transit center, perhaps artist spaces, different gallery spaces, what have you, but this one would have that ground level sort of open through the center and allowing the transit center to pass underneath the garage a bit different than what we've seen before. This one preserves a lot of open space against the railroad tracks in front of housing that we're seeing. We think there's opportunity to refine this one a bit to show housing on that north side or page north of the garage itself to integrate a little bit more with any future development that we see on 125 Lakeside Avenue. This would shift around parking a little bit, but we think we can make it work. Also, this idea of opening up the transit center, like not spanning the transit center itself with the garage and keeping that just open. We wouldn't want to create an environment that is uninviting perhaps. So we've got some refinements to this. We'd love to hear your feedback on it, but this was a starting point for us. Next slide, dude. Again, this is just a diagram to show how the ground level is a bit different in its treatment. A lot of it would be sort of open to permit the buses passing through on that north-south connecting road as well as a punch through of the housing to allow vehicles to enter the garage. Again, I think there's some refinements to this one that we can make, but this was a starting point in the conversation for us. Then again, the idea of the three levels of housing above that ground floor. Next one. Here's some images. This is a pretty common thing in development these days. Nobody likes looking at a parking garage, so this really helps screen the parking garage itself. The top two images on the left there, I really, really appreciate. You can't even tell there's a parking garage behind it when you're on that main street. But it does work really well in terms of integrating the uses. Oftentimes you see sort of a gap between the housing and the parking structure just to permit more airflow and get light and circulation into the space. So it is a pretty common thing that we're seeing these days. Next one. This was an interesting idea. This is coming up in conversation more and more as years go on, we anticipate not needing a car as much with autonomous vehicles, better mass transit, more walkable and bikeable cities. So just trying to think through the long game of how these parking garages operate through the decades. One idea is to create an adaptable structure where you might have taller floor-to-floor ceilings, no internal ramping within the garage. That would give you the opportunity to transition the garage structure to say office spaces or retail uses or even housing. So the concept that we just saw with the wrapped structure does rely on that external ramp that you would need to accommodate a use like this. So that's just one thing that we're thinking through how this might work and operate and sort of the longevity of the structure as well. This is sort of just an overview. Again, with all of these options, we're assuming that we would be at a four-story structure, both with the housing and the garage. So with concept A and B, we see again the same amount of parking spaces, but concept B1 introduces those 45 housing units. Concept B2 has a bit more housing integrated into it, about 65 housing units and a little less parking. But we still think this accommodates the needs in the area. I think we're still trying to right-size the transit center itself. It looks like about 2,500 square feet seems to be the right number, maybe a little more, maybe a little less, but just trying to think through how that operates best as well. So there's a couple modifications. We'd love to hear your feedback as we sort of refine these concept sketches and bring them back out to you. Thanks. And just to bring it all home, next steps here, we'll be out at the farmers market next Saturday with boards and flyers and more information looking to get more feedback. We'll take that back and develop, refine these alternative sketches. Jeff was alluding to some of those refinements that we're considering. We'll be back again for public meeting in September, and then this all wraps up at the end of September. With that, we'll turn it back over to Charles. Great. Thanks, Jeff. Thanks, Dave. Okay, folks. We are going to, I'm going to share my screen and sort of orient everybody to the platform that we're going to be using for tonight's meeting. So one second. Okay. So in a few moments, you're going to be sent to a breakout room in Zoom. For those of you who've not ever participated in a Zoom breakout room, essentially it's a Zoom meeting within a Zoom meeting. Your breakout room will have a facilitator from the Office of City Planning. Those facilitators are Megan Tuttle, the planning director, who many of you know. And Sarah Morgan are relatively new planners, many of you do not know, but Sarah's great. And the three of us will facilitate these three breakout rooms. So what you're going to see when you enter the breakout room is a screen that looks something like this. The exercises that you see here, I'll zoom in in just a moment and sort of show you how these are working. And then your facilitator will go into more detail. These exercises are essentially a replication, again, of what we did last week in person at Generator. When you first get in your room tonight, the first exercise you're going to do is this top one where we're going to simply ask you to take one of these orange stickers and place it on the map where you live in Burlington. So just as an example of how that might work, I'm going to sort of scroll in here. I'm going to select this guy. I'm going to unlock them. And then I'm going to drag it over to where I live. And that's it. So this is just to help us understand where folks are coming from. I should say also that before I go any further, that again, and I'm repeating myself here, this is a sort of learning process for all of us. We're trying to make this work as engaging as we can. Many Zoom virtual meetings have surveys that are really useful, but sometimes not the most engaging. And so we were looking for an opportunity maybe to make this a little bit more fun as a way to sort of ask some questions that might generate some really interesting conversations within our breakout rooms and within the larger group. So bear with us. If you're finding that tonight's meeting is a little complex or convoluted, there'll be more opportunities for you to get your input provided to the planning work. Just a little bit more orienting folks to Miro. When you log in, there's going to be at the bottom left here where my cursor is a sort of sidebar icon. So if you click on that, it's going to bring up this sidebar on the left that shows each of the five frames. So Miro calls these frames. So we've got five of them here. So if you want, you can leave that sidebar open to help you navigate between them. So if you want, if I want to go to frame two right now, I just click on that, then it would take me over to frame two. Another way to navigate is to if you're on a computer and you have a mouse or you have a scroll pad, you can just like many applications, you can use the scroll pad to zoom in and out like I'm doing now. So now you see the full extent. So if I want to go to frame four now and I wanted to do it with the zoom, I can just scroll in here and see it. You'll notice that these images become clearer as I zoom in and that should work for you as well. Just a note here, if you're on a phone or a tablet and this is not ideal setting for you, use your breakout room to either tell your facilitator directly or chat with them what your input is. So if you're on a phone and you're not able to do it this way and you're using this exercise and you're in Sarah's group, you can say, hey Sarah, I want to put my green sticker in food and drink and I want to leave a comment in one of these post-it notes here and here's my comment and we'll help you that way.  We're going to spend about 10 to 12 minutes in each of these groups and each of these frames rather. So by the end of that we're hopefully we'll be in here for about in your breakout room for about 45 minutes or so. Just a few other things. If you are on a mouse or on a computer, another way to... Sorry about that. Don't know what that was. We have... You can scroll if you press right click on your computer or on your mouse. You can go side to side. These boards are... Most of them are locked. So you shouldn't be able to move the actual boards themselves, but you will be able to move these post-it notes and these stickers that we're calling them. So again, those are locked. If you do happen to move something unintentionally that you didn't want to move, you can do control Z, undo. You can right click and undo or just tell your facilitator and we'll take care of it afterwards. In the upper right hand of your screen, you're going to see some icons. In my screen right now, I see one that says CD. So that's me, last name is Dillard and SM for Sarah Morgan. If you go ahead and so your facilitator's icon will be up here. Your icon will be up here. If you click on your facilitator's icon, you can actually follow them along and your facilitator will have the Miro board open as well. So you can follow with them or you can follow on your own. You can also change your username when you come into Miro. The program is going to generate automatically an anonymous name for you. If you would like to add your real name to that, feel free to do so. So that is about it.  I would suggest maybe having one window open with Zoom and one with Miro. It's not necessary. You can simply have the Miro board open your screen. You'll still be able to hear and talk and use the chat and communicate in Zoom. So whatever you feel comfortable doing. We're going to leave after tonight's meeting. We're going to save all of this information but leave it open for a few days so you can come back to it. If you feel like tomorrow you wish you would have said something else or added a little bit, another comment, you'll be able to do that and we'll leave it up and we'll let you know how long we're going to leave that up. We're thinking about a week now. So that is about it for folks who are coming in later. You're not going to be hearing this but we've got Samantha Dunn from CEDO here. She's going to be helping. She's going to stay in the main room. So for some reason you get kicked out or you accidentally leave your breakout room. Samantha can help you get back into your room or answer any other questions about content or about the meeting. So it looks like people are joined. So I'm going to go ahead and stop sharing and again we will see you all in your breakout rooms shortly. Thanks for that overview, Charles. Just so everyone knows, I did just add a link in the chat to the Miro board that Charles was just previewing for us. If you'd like you can use that link to follow the board directly and engage with the board directly and as Charles mentioned if you're not feeling comfortable doing that yourself no worries when we get into our breakout rooms your facilitators will also have it up on the screen and we'll be able to help you add stickers and comments to the boards for all the content. So we have actually split up everyone that's here tonight in just two breakout breakout rooms so that we have good numbers of people to have some conversation. So we will see you over there in just a few minutes. You shouldn't need to do anything if you get a little prompt on your screen that invites you to join a breakout room say yes I'd like to come and we will see you there. I think we're going to have folks trickling back in from the breakout rooms it looks like people are still active in the Miro board so again if you weren't in the Miro board you know we're going to that link is shared with you and we'll share it on the website so that you can access that. Remind everybody if you missed the intro presentation that we've also got something innovation district story map that is linked on our website and that has a lot of really great information so if you were finding that you thought maybe you needed a little bit more a little bit more information or history or background on any of this that's all there in the story map and again urge you to to share the link. Jean did you two get were you able to we finished all but the land use types so Jean and Bob we're going to finish that up on the survey on the story map link. Awesome thank you Sarah so again so it looks like folks are in Megan's group are still over in Miro that's okay if you want to go back right now or after the meeting feel free again I just want to reiterate that this is not your last opportunity to provide input we've had some really great conversations we had some good conversations tonight and last week and it's really clear that people understand you know the importance of this work for the south end for the community generally. So yeah I do urge you to share the links to the story map into the Miro board with your friends Jeff and Dave from BHB who presented earlier about the multimodal facility they're going to be out at the farmers market on the 16th they've got some more engagement opportunities if you if you want to really get down into the details on 68 Sears Lane that's your team so you can see them at the farmers market on the 16th tentatively we're planning on being there as well by we I mean perhaps Sarah maybe attending the farmers market and where we'll have some sort of physical engagement material asking similar questions maybe the same question but please tell your to your friends family co-workers about that and again this is a so for those of you who are sort of unfamiliar zoning. We will be presenting next week again to the planning commission it's just to sort of update on what we've heard in the community a sort of summary of the feedback a summary of the discussions we've had with stakeholders and the summary of the sort of work we've done. We know there are some important sort of questions related to infrastructure that we didn't necessarily address in this meeting tonight but things like wastewater, stormwater, traffic capacity, bike and pedestrian amenities, the energy performance of buildings, parks that sort of thing. So we're all rest assured we were covering all of our bases here but we'll present that sort of update to the planning commission next week but then later in July and in August the office of city planning will be presenting a draft zoning amendment to the planning commission and those are public meetings as well it's a different format than tonight but that'll be an opportunity for and those are you know because they're public meetings there's a public comment opportunity and so you'll be able to you know speak up there as well and the benefit of those meetings for you is that the planning commission will be there to hear your comment and as they deliberate on the amendment the draft amendment and as they refine it in their own way and as we work with them to refine it that'll be another way for public input to be incorporated and that process you know will probably take a couple months itself and then it will have a process a very similar process with the city council as you know those are public meetings as well and the city council would would benefit greatly from from having your your input so it looks like folks from Beggans breakout room are trickling back in to the main room well that's quite all right um looks like people were having fun I think we we had some we had some good conversations in our group if you guys did too um we're just telling people urging people to to continue the work on the Miro board again we're going to leave that up we don't know exactly how long but it'll at least be the next few days so um we'll we'll share that information on the website so in the meantime please do share the Miro link with your friends and family who you think might be interested um are there any folks who have any sort of closing comments questions that you'd like to to address here I'd like to see that all of the future meetings for this if there's any chance for us to get together and meet face to face that would be terrific but nonetheless if we continue to do it by zoom um just continue to advertise so that we get a heads up and we can you know zoom in or participate I think it's uh you know you guys have really done a great job and technologically I'm shocked at how well this went so congratulations on that I am so thrilled to hear that thank you maria you should put it on front porch forum so we know about it thank we will do that I think we we did post it but we will be sure to to post it I posted it on mine I didn't see it before maybe you did thanks caroline no problem thank you guys you if you do have a few neighbors um we did have somebody who left the meeting because they weren't able to participate in the technology tonight so if you know of any neighbors that wanted to come but didn't stay uh let us know or let them know that they can reach out to us and we'll find a way to get them like a hard copy of what we did tonight so that they can participate as well yeah thanks Megan well you should put that on front porch forum too one of the questions I have is um Megan uh had mentioned earlier uh or Charles I'm not sure who but said that you'll leave something open so that we can go on and peruse for any of my neighbors that weren't able to join the meeting tonight or uh so we can add comments I I didn't do anything with the mayor tonight uh in terms of sharing a screen or whatever but um could you like educate us on how we would follow up with this and and watch it progress yes so um I just shared again the link to that mirror board uh in the zoom chat Maureen do you see that in the in the chat something just popped up but since I'm focusing on you and yeah I'm not that technically advanced but uh something I did see that you you sent something through so okay I'm hoping that it comes through like will it come through in an email Megan title to everyone we can okay we can email all the participants and all those folks who registered for the meeting and include that link to the mirror board I think we're also going to post the mirror board link on our own website that Megan just linked to also in the chat um on that website there is also a link to the story mat so this you've got the sort of trinity of material about the innovation district um yeah so that's what we were talking about we would leave the mirror board open for folks to come in at their own pace um I think we're probably going to leave it open for a week or so so anytime you know this weekend you want to come back to it or you want to you know send the link to your friends and have them do it that's that's what we're talking about we're going to make sure that we um save all of the input that we received tonight and copy it over to a separate board that we'll keep for ourselves and for record keeping but we're going to leave this one open so that you know everybody can can view not only provide their own input but see what other input people about it yeah caroline you have a question um yeah who did the design on this on the work that we saw tonight wow this was a truly a team effort um but is it city city people or architects or yeah all city people all city people okay well just thank you yeah thank you for asking that question caroline yes um it was really charles and sarah's work so a huge thanks to them i think they've been able to put together a lot of really informative information and um we hope that it's helpful um i did want to mention too as charles said i did put a link to the city's website um we have a page that's specifically about this innovation district work so all the different links that we shared with you tonight and the ways that we've invited you to participate and share your feedback will all be centrally located there so we'll make sure that goes out in an email to all of you after tonight's meeting terrific thank you um i have one more question sure who owns the parking lot the big parking lot do you have any feedback from them on what they might like to do yeah we've had conversations with all of the property owners within that working boundary about you know what plans they've already been thinking about over the years and what they might contemplate if the innovation district is created um and i think it's safe to say that there's uh a somewhat general consensus about you know things like um new streets connectivity through the sites if there's development on the sites um i think developers feel fairly comfortable with height limits of the kinds that you were seeing you know four six maybe eight stories in a limited fashion um but yeah i you know there's been we've had some really good conversations with those property owners and other property owners um what else can i say about that are they ready to move are they just sitting around i would not say they're sitting around i think they're doing a lot of work um and you know anticipating development one way or the other yeah i think there's a lot of interest in activity i think uh from hula to sort of continue their own operations in the district but also to create homes for people who might be setting up shop at places like hula or the innovation center i think there's a very strong interest from the owners of hula and the owners of 125 lakeside to create more homes for people who are working in the south end and working in burlington it's it's hard for everybody yep yeah marine um what percentage of that 125 parking lot is hula and what percentage is dbt and is there a mandate that they and you work together to develop it in accordance with all the work that you guys have done separately from or together with what they've done is it going to be a joint effort or is there going to be a hula innovation district and a burlington vermont innovation district yeah i mean that's an interesting question i mean ultimately however those property owners or any other property owner develop the site they'll either have to conform to the eventual innovation district zoning regulations so that might be height regulations or uh use regulations or any other type of regulation or there could be yeah to your point a sort of detailed negotiated process um uh site design coordinated with the city there's no mandate i would say that either one has to happen there are certain infrastructural constraints and barriers that we know about that um will have to be handled in any situation i'm talking specifically about wastewater and storm water uh traffic that sort of thing so um you know it's extremely unlikely that um there would be development without some serious conversation and negotiation about all of that stuff well they're going to have to ask for permits and such hey that's right so today yeah that's a great point you know the the capacity of the wastewater system for example today would likely seriously limit their ability to get a permit to develop the site how they would like to see it developed um talking about the number of um people generating waste the office workers residents that sort of thing so yeah there would need to be some discussion about what's the capacity of the infrastructure how can we improve the capacity infrastructure and who's paying for it yeah i think the kind of broader uh comment that i just wanted to add is you know definitely trying to plan together um even if ultimately the city's area and the hula property maybe get developed separately we're trying to plan together and ultimately a lot of the questions that we were asking you tonight are about how do we set the zoning rules that will help guide any future development whether it happens together or individually so you know megan one thing i would like to ask both of you and charles is what mechanism is in place that once the permits are let that city officials check back on a regular uh basis to make sure that whatever the permits were requested and the permits that were let that the organization i.e. for instance hula is actually following to the letter of the permit that they were provided and so that has not happened here on lakeside avenue and it's become a serious point of contention because they were supposed to have a parking management plan where all of the hula people could park on their campus and so they're charging for parking for instance and so a lot of their residents tenants and guests park on the street and it's caused a lot of contention and a lot of traffic congestion and so there needs to be a mechanism in writing in place that says we're going to give you these permits based on the written word but we're going to make sure that you are following the permits even after the building is built the houses are built the roads are built it needs to be a mechanism in place to make sure that if they are not there are consequences yeah thanks marine um and we can definitely talk about that i know that in some parts of the city there are newer requirements around reporting on parking management plans and you know that's definitely something that we can uh make sure to talk about more as we continue this work so super thank you i have a question uh for charles or or megan or maybe even sarah uh at the next uh presentation could could you also could you define and also have a drawing that talks about the the limits of the innovation district or what areas are we talking about yeah so i know you mentioned from sears lane you know north to somewhere and you know presumably from pine or is it the new champlain parkway west or you know what what are the uh the perimeter boundaries of what the new innovation district would be and gene involved unfortunately that was on the fifth slide that we did not we were not able to get to but on the mirror board you'll kind of be able to see when you access it after you'll be able to see the proposed boundary and there's also information on the story map and website okay but yeah on the on the website in the story map and and just a little bit more on that the story map actually lays out a really interesting history of the of the waterfront and why certain areas are the way they are today why there's contamination and why so many of those uses today uh are surface parking lots you know formerly industrial areas and that's it sort of all helps sort of build the story and so yeah i would urge you to check out the story map you know it would help you answer that question thanks i have another question when and if um does the city want to start building the serious lane area well i would the the work that um david and jeff shared earlier is a feasibility study and just keep that in mind so that's just basically to understand you know what if anything could feasibly be developed on the site i don't think there's meg and i don't think there's any specific plans on the part of the city or the regional planning commission to develop the yeah once we know more about the outcome of the feasibility study it'll help inform us on any potential next steps but so we don't have a specific timeline for doing a development on that site at this time so it's just a possibility next year or ten we're doing some planning for it right now yep okay thank you you're welcome and then on on the the the parking structure that was kind of the main thing that i was hoping to talk about here i guess is there is there a better place in the future another meeting to talk more specifically about that feasibility study and get community input um because i this was the first meeting about this in general yeah david do you want to comment on that yeah if um jack if you're if you're available next saturday we're going to be at the farmers market um all day we'll be there from nine to two so that we'll have materials we'll have some forms to fill out so if that works for you that would be perfect i mean thanks thanks save all right do we have any other comments questions again thank you everybody so much for coming we really do appreciate it um this is really important work uh to hear to hear your input so um yeah please share again i'm gonna say one more time please share the links um that we've shared with you tonight uh with your friends family co-workers anybody really do you think would be interested and would have valuable information to share and we look forward to seeing you at the next event keep in mind next tuesday the planning commission will be updated on on all of this work including a summary of what we've heard from you and your neighbors on the date and stay tuned and uh hope everybody has a great evening thank you


It is now good afternoon folks welcome back after the the 20-minute break We're just about to start our next session with Pete Bray If this this is your first time in this room today, then welcome to the HP track a couple things I want to share with you about our track today and the presence that we have here in Vancouver for the summit If you haven't checked out our lounge yet, I definitely highly recommend it It's on the west side of the building. It has a great view and There's s'mores and some acoustic music as well as you can get some really nice hoodies and Get some badges Ironed on so different badges such as you know for the different projects There's some different logos and whatnot that they have there so you can customize it Definitely awful also want to recommend that to you RSVP to our party on Tuesday evening so if you haven't done so already the supernatural party that's gonna be a lot of fun and Next little last thing before I hand it over to Pete is that we have lightning talks following this session and Besides having a bunch of great presenters coming up here and giving five minute quick talks about different different ideas or calls to action During that session. We'll also be doing a giveaway for a 10-inch Android tablet So make sure you be here for that if you're not leaving the room You're gonna stay for that session Just raise your hand after afterwards and we'll bring you around a raffle ticket for that so We have amped up open-stack Swift with Pete so thank you Pete Okay, awesome. Thank you Cody and welcome today to our session amping up open-stack Swift So with me here today also, so I'm Pete Brian with the helium open-stack team at HP I'm responsible for developing and marketing cloud storage solutions Based upon helium open-stack and with me here today. I also have Joseph George Joseph. Can you introduce yourself? Well, you don't have the microphone There you need that yes Joseph George director in the HP server group for big data and storage solutions specifically around Apollo servers And I've also been fortunate to serve on the open-stack board in my past as well Excellent. Thanks Joseph So our discussion here today, and I call it a discussion as opposed to I'm not gonna sit here and Joseph's not gonna sit here and go through Slides and tell you about how HP is great Rather, I think we want to get a two-way discussion going here And so I'm gonna start it off by just kind of pulling you and getting a little bit of information from you And coincidentally we want to keep it kind of informal So if you have questions no need to wait till the end jump in let's get a conversation going Let's talk about what you want to talk about here We've got prepared materials and we're gonna go through that but feel free to jump in so the first question I'm gonna ask is how many of you out there in the audience have been working on deploying object storage with your open-stack environment Cool excellent how many are in production Okay Interesting how many of you are using Swift for your open-stack cloud storage interesting, okay Great. Well, that's what we're gonna be talking about today is open-stack Swift and what HP is doing Truly making if you've ever worked with object storage, you know that it can be a challenge to build these systems and particularly to scale them We're gonna talk today about what HP is doing to make that experience easier We have these things at HP that are called cloud optimized solutions. You may have heard of them What we're gonna talk about today is one that's called content depot We also have another cloud optimized solution called helium rack, which is really meant for Rapidly deploying and quickly scaling compute What we're gonna focus on here today is rapidly deploying and quickly state scaling object storage using open-stack Swift together with HP hardware HP services the everything that HP has to offer in this particular space If you do have a question, there's a microphone right there and Joseph will cover this side of the room too So please speak into the microphone so everybody can hear the question loudly and clearly and like I said interrupt at any point So we want to talk today about what we've created is optimized cloud solution called content depot You might say well, what is an optimized cloud solution? That sounds like a marketing term Really what it is fundamentally is it's a combination of hardware software Installation services and even operational knowledge Bundled together in a solution that we can provide for you it includes support It includes even financing if you're looking to deploy a private cloud type of solution like this So it's really an integrated solution meant to be more rapidly deployable and meant to be more easily scalable Some of the key features and as you probably know if you know anything about a open open-stack Swift It's mass. It's built for massive scalability from the ground up We can use this system to provide high availability also with built-in features around replication And of course it also supports the open-stack Swift API It's a very scalable system based on HP hardware and Joseph is going to talk about some aspects of that Particularly some of the new exciting things that we're doing with HP's Apollo server line That are really going to bring even further benefits for massively scalable storage like this But it's also supposed to be simple and if you've ever built one of these systems, you know that in order to achieve scale You got to have simplicity You can be eaten alive by the complexities of developing even just a petabyte size system let alone 40 or 100 petabytes And so that's one of the things that we've done Is we've engineered in some of the simplicity and we continue to hammer away at that How many of you in the audience are in businesses or industries where you're concerned about security data security in particular? Yeah It's a big concern and a lot of people deploying these types of systems are very concerned about both data in flight and data at rest And with this particular solution we can provide Encryption of both at rest and in-flight data and we'll talk a little bit about that a little bit later And then of course it's open. It's based on open-stack standards So let's talk first about one of the major hardware components which are the servers that go into these solutions Joseph's going to talk to us about the new Apollo series the Apollo 4000 series. I mentioned security optimized version of this particular reference architecture which supports both data at rest and data encryption using our ProLiant DL 360 line together with the 6000 storage and a product called an enterprise secure key manager from HP So let's go ahead and Joseph. I'll turn it over to you and you can talk about the Apollo series. Sure. Thanks Pete So When it comes to servers, you know, I haven't been in the open source communities for a long time a lot of times you'll just hear find your favorite general purpose node And Multiply it times. However big you want your your cluster to be right. It's kind of the standard perspective. That's great. Del's got you know HP's got a number of You know great great servers That fit that the DL 380 is a good example most popular server in the world But what we what we've started finding is that as you started digging into these use cases You start finding that general purpose is not always the best fit for specific workloads. Okay? So for example, you know a standard general purpose server will have some compute some storage. It's a great general purpose multi-purpose type type model But what the what the Apollo 4000 family has started doing is Looking at how we actually do storage on a server Better than you know, Jen than what general purpose actually is doing So we if you're familiar with the SL 45 40 is anybody I know this not a hardware show So you may not be familiar, but okay, see a few hands when Fox was Up here on stage and Dreamworks was on stage. They mentioned they're actually using that in their environment Is it just me or is this volume going down? Can you hear me? You can hear me fine. Okay good The SL 45 40 right now is one that's being being used But what we've done is now that we started seeing this particular market, you know customers like you are starting to get How a purpose-built storage platform for you know with with some compute how it's actually making a difference We've actually expanded that to a full portfolio of things right now And so whenever you see an Apollo 4 series server You can you can know that it has to do with data big data Optic stored etc. We'll spend a little bit of time on the Apollo 4200 and the 4510 Which we just announced that are specific to Swift in particular. I won't spend a lot of time on the 4530, but just so you're aware. It's a It's a chassis. It's a for you chassis that's got three individual compute nodes and then 15 drives associated with each one of those So if you anything about Hadoop when data comes into the cluster it Replicates it three times so it works really well in that one chassis and you've got the compute nodes that are there Not gonna spend a lot of time on Hadoop, but let's go ahead and get into what these platforms look like Okay, now When you talk about servers you talk about you write the units It's the the note that the height of the server in the rack This is a brand new product the Apollo 4200 Most of you are probably using to you servers the servers are to to you in height Most of your servers are probably at 15 16 large form factor drives in that environment What we have just done is rolled out this 4200 that actually can hold 28 large form factor drives in a 2u space and Each one of those drives can actually be up to 8 terabytes So it is a form factor that a lot of folks are very very comfortable with It looks a lot like the 380 in terms of its in terms of its Height, but what we've managed to do is we actually added another drive cage to this We if you look at the graphic there The front end of that that server actually slides out and right behind it another drive cage And actually in the back we actually another drive cage as well So you can have 28 large form factor drives in this one dry in this one server Or if you wanted to use small form factor drives, we can use 50 small form factor drives here What we've done here is really taken that storage data use case and really expand it out We understand the community likes this form factor. And so what this does now for Is you can actually have 224 terabytes in that same sort of form factor? You've always known in love you can now do this in a 2u form factor Okay, and again, this is the first first time in the market and with this solution When it comes to 2u servers HP actually has the densest Storage server that is in in the industry All right And finally talk about 4510 and then we'll stop talking about servers If you're familiar with the 4540, this is the next generation of that a couple of things that changed the SL 4540 the previous generation Was a was 4.3 u and I know a lot of people love that 0.3 But we've shaved that off. It's actually now even for you Why that matters is now we can get 10 of these chassis in Iraq now And so with 10 chat 10 rat a 10 test is in one rack These we've also added six extra drives in the old generation. We can only get 60 drives now We're at 68 drives and each one of those can be 8 terabytes each And so if we do a little bit of math 68 drives times 10 you can actually have 5.4 petabytes of capacity in one rack now And what we're seeing is there's there's lots of ways to get this kind of storage Capacity in your in your environment, but now we're able to try and get it as dense as possible a lot of our customers that are Using on-prem solutions or are looking at a hybrid solution where some of their Open-stack environment is is on-premise and some are in the public cloud We're trying to make sure that we're taking as little data center space as possible And this is some of the innovation that's happening there There's a lot when it comes to power savings or it comes to the actual density of the compute And I want to be clear. It's not a j-bot. It actually does have compute capabilities on the front of it And we're working very closely with our helium teams and the open-stack community to To make sure that we're actually trying to drive a more object storage use case for this So as you start seeing more and more iterations of this coming out and this is a theme you'll start seeing from HP particularly in the Apollo line Purpose-built platforms of what you're going to start seeing so this particular platform purpose built for object storage And you know storage on a on a server Any quick questions on that before I hand it over and I went kind of fast on that But I'll hand over to Pete any questions on that Yes The question was are all these discs hot swappable the answer is yes I will say that there are some other players in the market that do something similar to this where Either you they're not hot swappable or you have to take a portion of the drives or a whole entire bay down Not the case here each one of these for both of these models Any drive that needs to be serviced pop them up on them back in no problem Yes, there was one other question Yeah question was do we support both SAS and SATA the answer is yes We support SAS SATA and SSD drives in both of these models, and we also support mixing them if you so choose And again this goes back to there, you know this was that early design argument Why why would anybody ever mix these? But now as you start getting into you know these new workloads you do want some better I you know I owe upfront and certain drives you want to be able to get quick quick in and out Other ones you want to just be cheaper drives to store the data So you can actually use all three types, and you can actually mix and match as needed Any other questions on that yes 4200 so the question was how does it compare to the DL 380? So they're very similar the engineering teams are actually the same teams This particular model was meant specifically for Storage so the DL 380 has a maximum of 15 large form factor drives And again it was designed to be general purpose any sort of use case you've got DL 380 can probably do a pretty good job of it Here we want it we recognize what was happening with object storage We have recognized what's happening with Hadoop, and we realize everybody's trying to get to a smaller footprint So it still has ILO it still has all the ProLiant manageability all those capabilities There are some you know, I believe there are some PCIe Lanes that we took out to make room for that drive cage So there are some features that we defeatured, but for the most part they're pretty close Good question. Any other questions on that that was more hardware questions than I expected to get out of this audience frankly All right, I'll go tell my server friends in Houston about that awesome. All right. Okay. Okay. Awesome. Thanks Joseph really good And I would just want to pick up on a comment that you made about Workloads and how important workloads are You know Joseph here presented a family of servers that you can to a degree You can pick and choose and use what you need and tune it to your specific workload And that's you know part of what we mean when we talk about cloud optimized solution We can certainly if you go at the end of this presentation We'll give you a website where you can go and download white paper and you can read up on our prescribed reference architecture So, you know based upon HP's experience running public cloud with some of the same types of hardware using open stack We've taken that knowledge and we've distilled that into this optimized solution That doesn't mean that's the only way you can build this solution, you know Joseph talked about the 4200 He talked about the 4510 two different options for servers and actually from HP even just alone There's a lot of different options for servers. You can use the DL 380 for instance So there's a lot of different ways you can build this based upon your workload requirements And you know, that's that's a very important point as you design your solution Tuning it The hardware tuning the software to the specific needs of your workload is very very critical So let's talk a little bit about the networking that goes into this solution because again It's a turnkey solution. It includes everything you need to be able to rapidly deploy We prescribe two different types of switches One for the data plane and one for the control plane or the management plane The HP 5900 top of rack switch, which we configure with 10 gig it's it supports up to 40 gig But we configure it for 10 gig and this is for your data plane So this is between your proxies and your your object storage servers and even out to your public client network For the management plane though, we don't need as much bandwidth And so we recommend the the 2920 switch from HP here Which has one gig built in which is just fine for a management plane I mentioned the importance of data security and encryption And we didn't forget about that when we developed this reference architecture It was one of the key things that we understood in the marketplace So we work together with a joseph's team. We architected a solution to address that particular requirement To be able to provide on disk encryption using a special controller from HP the p431 smarter way controller So with this solution and together, you know, one of the biggest challenges in performing this is keeping track of the encryption keys And HP has a product here called enterprise to key cure me secure key manager Which you can use together with this p431 controller To create an end-to-end Encryption solution that you can also use to manage The encryption keys. So it's really a nice solution if you have requirements around data security Any questions either on the networking components or the encryption components? Okay And the nice thing if you've worked with Swift, you know this But the nice thing is it's a very scalable architecture So as I need additional performance Or as I need additional capacity, I can add additional proxy nodes and I can add additional object storage nodes Independently Now there are some rules and if you go read our reference architecture document You'll learn about some of these guidelines. I shouldn't say rules but guidelines for how you scale And one of the key things in an architecture like this is maintaining balance in the system And so you can read about that again in the reference architecture document So all this is great, you know, we've spent some time talking about hardware We've spent some time talking, you know about the various components of the system, but What does it get you? What can you do with it? What we're trying to do now not that we have a solution like this providing object storage is Start to add application support around that You're going to do something with this object storage obviously, right? It may be and we see these as some common use cases There's lots of different use cases for object storage, but we see these In the customers that we work with and talk to we see these as kind of emerging As the main focal point ones today The first area is just a general content repository And some examples here you could be in the media and entertainment industry You could be in life sciences you could be In healthcare financial services doesn't matter You're in a business where you're generating lots and lots of data And I've actually heard some of my customers call this a digital parking lot. I just need a place Relatively inexpensive massively scalable fairly reliable that I can put this data and I can come back and get it later That's a content repository use case The next area And it's interesting if you go out and talk to a lot of different organizations One of the biggest concerns of cios and the it staff is the prevalence of drop box in their organizations It's a real big problem for them And so we work with a lot of customers who are trying to battle this problem and repatriate that data Back into their organizations. This is an area called file sync and share and what we're doing here is we're working with some third party software partners Cetera and gladinat to create solutions to address this particular problem So now not only are we delivering the basic object storage functionality But we're also going to be able to deliver this file sync and share So everything you know about file sync and share drop box You know with access from a mobility devices Collaboration and sharing on a worldwide basis That's what our enterprise file sync and share is and that's what these solutions are cloud storage gateways There's not too many People who are deploying object storage that don't have a need for backwards compatibility with traditional nas Types of systems. It could be nfs. It could be sifts. It could be samba It could be ht. It could be ftp. It could be you know any any number of different legacy protocols And so we're working with some partners here to develop solutions to address this particular requirement the one I have listed here is panzera and finally a very popular use case for object storage right now is Bringing down the cost of cloud backup and archive and more importantly reducing the latency of particularly cloud restore cloud based restores of data And so these are four different solution areas where we've been working to take this content depot cloud optimized solution and really use it for For use cases real-world use cases A little bit more details in terms of the file sync and share use case You know I already talked about providing mobility access Being able to repatriate that data back into the organizations and ensure security but also auditability And then finally enabling team collaboration on a worldwide basis being able to share files and collaborate Not only within organizations, but with external partners too and doing that in a secure way And as I mentioned, we're working with satara and gladinat. Now there are a whole list of actual partners that are working with hp helium on this type of a solution And what you might want to do if you're interested in getting more information about this Go out to the hp website and look for the hp helium ready program It's our program where we're working together with partners like satara and gladinat to certify their software to certify that it actually works With hp helium and there's quite an extensive list already of different software partners that hp has worked with Together with helium open stack. So if you're interested Feel free to go out there and get some more information and certainly feel free to contact myself If you want to get more information I mentioned backup and restore and most modern day Backup software now supports the capability to be able to back up not only to traditional tape based or disc to disc based types of devices Now you can also back up to the cloud directly using object storage containers A feature that hp's data protector added in version 9.01 Is an ability to go directly into a menu and specify an object storage container to back up to And then data protector as it's doing its backups will use that as the target It's really a nice feature You can also use that together in this particular slide shows using it with a product from hp called store wants Store wants is a disc to disc Storage platform meant for A disaster recovery backup types of applications One of the nice things about store wants is it includes integrated De-duplication technology so you can de-dupe your backups and if you know anything about backups De-duplication is one of the key pieces of technology you want in your backup systems I talked about gateways and how important that is to provide backwards compatibility for traditional NAS protocols and We're working here together with satara on some Cloud gateway offerings as well as panzera and in addition to others and we have those again listed on our hp helium ready website Again, it provides a seamless transition for traditional NAS based protocols But there are also additional features that are built in typically To these types of solutions that can allow you to do like tiered storage types of implementations You can even plug into multiple different private or public clouds using these These types of solutions. So it's really a nice It's it's a nice way to provide backwards compatibility, but also give you a lot of flexibility Going forward real quickly I want to talk about a couple of customer use cases that we at hp have been working with On deploying these types of solutions and particularly the content depot solution The first one is an organization called beijing union union read and they are a They're an open source service provider based in china And they chose to go with helium open stack and in particular open stack swift in a very similar configuration to content depot to build Open source storage solutions for their customers And they are looking at aggressively growing their business They want to move beyond kind of their core customer base, which has been in a very Specialized market they want to grow that out into adjacent industries like health care and insurance and other industries and so They chose HP helium Strictly because of that because we were able to partner with them and we were able to help them put in place A solution that was going to grow as they needed to grow And another customer that we've been working with is called okinaw crosshead Based in japan and they also are a service provider servicing smbs throughout japan They have a product called nazda cloud Which is an open stack system for public cloud control and monitoring They as part of the solution offering wanted to build a disaster recovery solution using open stack swift And again, they chose to work with hp because of the maturity of the hp offering And what we could do with them to help them grow their business long term So they deployed a solution Using swift and using a configuration similar to content depot for their object storage solution So it's really exciting to see, you know, these types of real world Use cases come together and people successfully deploying open stack swift using a lot of the things that we talked about here today So I want to open it up. That's actually all the slides I have for today Does anybody have any questions or comments anything you want to talk about regarding swift or hp and our involvement? Yes, and if you can Come up to the microphone, please that would be great And I do have some of our technical experts here today too if we we can go into the technical details if you want to I would like yes to comment that Well, you are working on you are focusing on open stack swift, which is an open source solution And why don't you for example for the file syncing? Why don't you consider an open source solution such as on cloud? Yes Great question. So the question was, you know Why don't we consider open source solutions for some of these files and concern? Yes, we do And I believe we have some of them listed on our hp healing on ready website I think you mentioned own cloud. Yes, that's one of them that we've we've worked with So yes in my organization. We use swift as backend for wrong cloud and Well, it does have some issues, but it kind of works Yes, I think I think with own cloud there were some issues with licensing And that's why we didn't do like an official commercial Productized version of that, but you're absolutely right. You can use it and it does work and people are a lot of Functionality already built in and you don't have to rely on some other company to develop like calendar Yep, makes sense Great feedback Excellent. Any other questions or comments? Okay, well, I thank you very much for your time today and like we said, please go and enjoy the hp area Sounds like there's lots of free stuff And kody Can give you more information


Great. So the question is from Liz about these monthly Q&A calls that I do. What benefits have been found by doing these monthly calls?  So why don't you come to my next monthly Q&A call? So yeah, I think that's the main benefit for me. Also, it of course helps to come up with content ideas too. People ask questions. I mean, these things can become content ideas. And for example, especially as I take notes, a way to send people to have a longer convo without having to type so much in a forum thread or message, private message thread. Now, of course, I typically just allow people who have signed up for recent classes, but you know, occasionally if I feel like I want to, you know, give someone access to it, that's okay, I can invite them. However, I don't see why I would ever have to change or cancel the monthly call. I mean, it's basically due to planning. I mean, I have been supporting my mother when she had an accident. I supported my brother with an accident. I was there and I did calls like this. I taught courses like this.  I mean, we really shouldn't ever have to do that. It's like, I think, I know I'm so uncompassionate. I am.  You should always show up. I always show up no matter how sick I am. I had COVID before. I showed up anyway. I wasn't, no, my thank goodness for my health. You know, I don't have to cope morbidities and stuff. I showed up anyway. Sorry. That's, I try to be compassionate in most things, but I'm not compassionate when it comes to scheduling or rescheduling or canceling calls. Sorry. Okay. All right. So how do we keep the boundaries tightly locked in an hour? We'll see. We're at the beginning of the Q&A call right now. And one thing I've done is I have a visual timer here on my phone next to me and the five minutes is clicking off. So I just, you know, it's a, it's a, it's an app called what visual timer or whatever. So I just have it next to me and I can quickly glance the, okay, how much of the pie do I have left for this particular question, right? And then how do we, what do we do when you can't answer submitted in the hour? I do, that does happen sometimes. And I will, you know, even though I schedule it for an hour, I technically have an hour. I technically have an hour and a half if I need to go over. And some of you have been here for at the end of the hour when I've had to go over and I've course, you know, apologize and I say, Hey, are you able to go over? If not, then I'll try to email a few, a few notes to you later. But, but yeah, that's, that's what I try to do. So, but I, you know, I think if I plan ahead, that's really the key. If I plan ahead, see, I, it's actually beautifully I happen to have about five minutes per question today from those who are submitted, the people who submitted questions in advance. I put them into the document and it happens to be that I have about five minutes per question, or per person, which is really helpful, you know, yeah, go ahead. What are you then, I know that you answer the pre submitted questions first. And then do you also then answer them in the order in which you receive them. Depending on their here so for example when I started the hour. I didn't see any of these five people here. So that's why I went to your question first. But if they show up during the call then I'll then I'll get to them next. Perfect. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And those who are here live and who didn't get to pre submit question. It all depends on whether we have time at the end of the hour but these days I usually don't have time to answer questions from those who are live but didn't pre submit. So that's why I always recommend, you know, if you can pre submit the questions that would be make it much more likely. So, yeah. Cool. Well, we have about 30 seconds left. Yeah, no, that's perfect and I had another one. But I think you've already answered it so no that's perfect thank you I think I'm going to start doing this I'm a little nervous about it I'm not sure why afraid of it getting out of control or whatever. Oh, I have done so I've done these just about every month for two, three, four years maybe okay five minutes is up. And yeah it takes a lot of practice and I didn't always have the document like this and you know so yeah it you'll you'll learn. Thank you very much. Thank you.


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Hey everyone, welcome to Alchemy Star. So if you've seen my summon video for Fiya, I apologize for that one. I had to update the software for my camera so hopefully by now you'll have a better camera quality which I'm using right now. By the way, I've done with the trial for each. I'm gonna give you guys probably my thoughts and probably kind of a strategy on how to play them and if you haven't summoned Gino and Fiya yet, probably you'd have what they call this an idea who to get if you want to prioritize one or the other. But before that, we'll be starting with Rainbow. This girl really knows how to lift a very, very, very heavy weight. I'm not talking about the front, I'm talking about the back. So let's start her trial. Okay, but before her trial, let's do a recap of her skills first. So activates Sunflower Marks on the field. So this is random guys. Damage is 9 tiles in a square shape which is a big area especially if you have a couple of Sunflower Marks on the field. The damage is good actually at 240 but if it's multiple damage down to 10 then if any tile on the field is occupied by three activated marks but no Sunflower Mark generates one new Sunflower Mark on that tile. So this again is pretty much very random. Chain combo is deals 150 damage to three nearest enemies and generates a Sunflower Mark for the enemies actually increase as you do more chain combos and the equipment is grants shield that is 120% of rainbow's defense and lasts for one round when passing through a Sunflower Mark generates one. Why do I keep on saying Sunflower Mark? It's Sunshower Mark. Generates a Sunshower Mark on one random blue tile at the beginning of each round. So I'm gonna I actually I'm actually impressed on if she's going to be a free unit. I'm impressed with how she's built. I'm impressed on if we're going to get you know her for free she's going to be good especially if you don't have any sniper units for for what they call this for water. As you can see her gears pretty much very very very very heavy. She's front heavy she's back heavy as you can see. So let's let's try her out okay so she's trying to do initiate. So as you initiate it explodes. So that is random already placed in the field. So let's do some let's go through the field here not you okay so let's do some damage here. The funny part is she moves so slowly with one cannon blast and deals two three three damage there okay so no generated one here it's pretty much very very random. But if your enemies is clustered within that those sun shower marks there the damage is sufficient guys I I don't you know I don't want to kid you guys it's sufficient enough that she can be used in scenarios where there are mobs running after your team as long as the sun shower marks is don't expect too much she's going to be a fun unit to bring. So let's do with wave 2 so you can't generate you can place sun shower mark just have to you know pray for the best that it's they're generated where you need them to be but again the area of effect for each sun shower mark is big. So the chances of you hitting a target is high especially for the damage of 240 percent that's very sufficient. So sun shower marks will hit okay let's just finish this out and go to the other two later but for her my what they call this my initial thoughts is she's fun to have she has a big amount of damage and the problem with her is the sun shower mark is not you know is not predictable on where it will be. So you have to rely more on her combos and by the way if you max com if you chain combo her well she's gonna deal four to four you know four nearest enemies so not that bad not that bad she's not your you know she's not your top tier sniper but definitely she is going to be fun to use that's that's my word fun if you need more snipers for for water and if you need more defense like for example if you need a shield so she generates a shield based on her defense which is actually good it's decent for a sniper in a good thing to have so as you can see there a she can be your tertiary probably damage leader dps unit she's gonna be fun you're gonna be maxing her out and hope you have fun with her so moving on to the next guys a rorean trial I'm gonna do a review the fias review last for Gino Gino is a bit complicated because Gino is a buffer he buffs your a unit I'm not saying the last one the first one he buffs a unit within the team then additional buffs when he brings them as captain but the problem with what I don't like about the he's a high risk high risk high reward kind of guy so as you so the original deck so as you initiate this you'll be drawing cards so as you draw cards your this is your deck your deck basically expands to any number depending on what this is your sanity here sanity system so at at 100 they're calm but once they reach zero they're gonna go crazy and they're gonna poison themselves so let's do some draws here it's okay so you can actually draw as much as you want depending on your sanity so you should be able to maximize this or kill the enemy as quickly as possible so we're just gonna do one more six cards I should have six cards so the first chain would be one of each which is or in the last position of the team gains additional attack to 77% of genius basic attack so the last one gains it not anybody in the middle the last one gains it or the other one is going to be this one the current captain gains additional attack that is 8% of genius attack so technically if you give give her give Paloma 7 plus 8 so she's the last give her 7 switch her to captain give her 8 okay so let's do first do first the first one the first combo so give Paloma 7 then switch her set her up as captain then do this one so she Gino basically is a buffer he's a he's a good buffer that's it that's how I may see his team his strategy the sanity system actually drives me bonkers here so let's do this let's try to clean this out the limitation to the buff actually is is is very unfortunate because again you cannot really go down that much from what you have from 50 sorry from go down 0 if you go down 0 you'll be poisoned so let's just do this and do this quick so as you can see the buffs that she has Paloma's buffs would stay with her for quite a while so she has two buffs here as you can see so it's for the duration of the battle so you only need to cast it once technically so that is how she Gino is built so you don't need to draw more cards if you don't need to transfer that buff so let's just do this for Paloma and take care of this go to the second wave okay so you don't have to transfer the buff you don't have to reapply the buff again the buff is still here so you don't need really to do anything more just have to follow through with with the other enemies that are left here so let us 15 okay unless if you want to transfer it to another you know another person another unit then you will have to lower your sanity down so your status poisoned already he he's gonna be good for a short duration a burst of damage for one of your highest damage dealers or damage output dealers but definitely for me again that is his limitation and also that is his strength you don't really need to reapply a lot of or decrease your sanity further actually at 50 am happy with the buff that he gives again let's check it out so the buff is still there again it's for the duration of the game or for the duration of this match that is it so again if he's a support he's gonna be good for a a ruin who does really a lot of damage with that multiplier and the buff then he's going to be good and we're going to the last one which is Fia Fia is is a bit more fun than Gino at this point I kind of like Gino in a way if you need to buff somebody in some of the missions that is it that is his his range but for this girl for Fia she has a lot of she has a lot of applications because the damage that she the damage that she deals is very big especially with Kylo so we'll we'll go through her skills first okay consume one point of bait value to replace one hunt mark on any tile so you can place this is the hunt mark the four here you can place it anywhere and you call also use to activate the mark so the marks will will will be in place for zero one two three rounds for each corresponding round the damage in the area will be different for zero it will be hunt mark tile only for for one it's five tiles in a cross shape for three for sorry for for one for two rounds it's 13 tiles in the diamond shape and for number three which is the ultimate one the biggest one is 25 tiles in a square shape so the damage is 150 to 150 500 and also reduces targets basic defense by five for the round so again it's a big damage this one this is the last one this is the third round area of effect already will be given a chance to set it up her skill requires a lot a lot of setup because she needs to to at least go with the second and third round so this is round zero so gonna initiate a lot of these here because the tutorial tells me to initiate so once you initiate this is round zero okay so for round zero so that's the last one so count you have to count basically her her what they call this her purpose is to lure everybody in into a kill zone so if your kill zone is here you have to put marks here while your enemy closes there so it's only one I don't want to apply anymore I want to lure them up here let's lure them there as you can see this is I think the second round let me check okay this is the second round already zero zero one two so for the second round it's a diamond shape with 300 it's going to be the damage is going to be 350 which is big but again for you to reach this high of a damage I think you need to get more copies of her but she's she's good as you can see that's fifth 350 damage if you can set her up well and lure enemies in a specific area so this one this is round two as well so I'm gonna take them out so your purpose for her if you plan to to do an evasive or defensive strategy moving and waiting for for for the bait mark to mature into round two or three then that is her strategy so we're at two ready I'm gonna lure them here so this is round zero take note guys that's round zero let's place another one for good measure okay so that's round zero both of them I'm gonna lure them to the corner this is round one so round one is small so I'd rather skip the stage and stay where I am and this is round two round two damage round two is good already I wouldn't want to complain with round two let's go with round three I'm gonna kill this guy okay this one is going to be round three this one is also I think round three but is a bit ah that's round three it's round three as well I haven't used that one so if you initiate it's a very big damage very big damage I tell you guys her kit is a lot of fun so let's just back up and lure them in so as you can see once you deal that damage that bait mark disappears so to left her kit is very enjoyable to use I tell you the problem here is once you put the bait value not the bait mark it's one at a time so place a hunt mark sorry bait value and hunt mark so let's just end it here this is not doing this so we have round seven she's a good support actually guys so as you can see as you've seen there that's how you play her um we're gonna have to finish this off in a while it's good that if they put numbers here but they didn't so as you can see you're warm automatically then it's about time to explode this it's very it's a very good tactic to have it's a defensive tactic which you could obliterate your enemies and you could just wait for them there you could wait for them while putting in other marks on the field that is how good it is and you can save up to probably nine marks so let's just pause movement and uh see very easy very easy fun relay her kit so that is it guys that is how you use all three of them and what are their you know probable applications to the game so i'll leave you to it guys if you haven't if you haven't summoned for for Gino and for Fia it's up to you and who now you know how to use them how their mechanics how their skill mechanics are going to be so thank you guys for staying as far take care stay safe this is the warden and i'm out of here