Founded in 1980, the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics is building its second campus due to open in Mordenton in 2021. Let's follow project manager Kevin Baxter and his team as they survey the site, engage the community, and dream about new possibilities for this innovative model of STEM education. We opened our doors in 1980 and at that time we're the first school of this kind in the country and in the world even, which was a publicly funded residential high school focused on STEM. North Carolina was transitioning from that time from being an agriculture and textile base primarily to more knowledge base, you know the research triangle park was up and coming and so the goal was to think about how to make sure we have the talent in the state to grow those industries as the state developed further and so one of the strategies was to provide this opportunity for students all over North Carolina and so we bring students in from all 13 congressional districts are involved in enrollment and so that started in 1980 and we opened the doors of 150 students in the junior class and added 150 the next year and this year we enroll 680 juniors and seniors in our residential program. Right off the top the most exciting thing to me is that we're going to serve 300 more students. We've hit capacity in Durham for many years now for about seven years we've not been able to go beyond the capacity we were the ceiling we reached with our student body and so 300 more students a year beginning in 2021 are going to have a residential experience. We spoke with vice chancellor for student life Terry Lynch about the unique opportunities that come with building a new campus. And then for me being able to have sort of like a blank slate to create different structures different systems and use the knowledge of what we do on the Durham campus but perhaps do it slightly differently for the Morganton campus and that could be you know the layout of a residence hall having more lounge spaces for the students to sort of gather the dining amenities for the students the opportunity to engage with the Morganton community. Those are real sort of neat opportunities that because we're building a new campus it gives you the opportunity to sort of think and be creative versus sort of doing the same things over and over again. A lot of times as an administrator you may be able to build a new building or build a new sort of suite there's very few times where you're actually building a new campus and opening a new campus and so that's really exciting. But we also see a tremendous opportunity to really build out an entirely new type of pilot learning experience which could become a pilot that maybe finds his way back to Durham as well where students get into the real world into advanced manufacturing settings and renewable energy development settings and sustainable agriculture settings and all these different types of experiences where they can work alongside professionals in the field. It's really a tremendous opportunity to expand the mission of the school to serve more students across North Carolina and take advantage of the resources and opportunities that present themselves in that part of the state. Well the most exciting thing for me is the opportunity that I think it's going to bring to all of Western North Carolina. Obviously a great opportunity for Morganton of which I'm quite passionate about. I think about this is the hub and all the different educational opportunities that can happen. I think it changes the game in Western North Carolina for the value of education and the ability to increase the educational attainment in all of North Carolina, especially Western North Carolina. And Sally Sandy isn't the only one excited about the unique setting of Western North Carolina. The campus is going to be very different. I mean it's going to be a little over three times the size in terms of the actual footprint of the campus and it's going to have a much more green space than the Durham campus does and so that may impact our ability to do some things differently with the curriculum around environmental sciences for example. Given that School of Science and Maths was the first of its type and now we have the opportunity with the UNC school system to develop that next university system, I would not be surprised that the other STEM organizations throughout the state, throughout the nation were looking at us and saying well how did you do this and can we copy that from you. And that's going to be a model that we believe is forward looking. It starts to respond to the interests of today's students and also the interests of industry. So the students that we're looking for, they're intellectually curious, they're entrepreneurial, they're innovative in their thought processes, they're critical thinkers and most importantly I think they are collaborative. They want to work with other students, they want to engage with faculty, they want to ask questions that have never been asked and answered before and that creates an environment that helps them to thrive as an individual but also as a community. I think when you really consider the mission of the school and you really look at the realization of the mission to not just be an experience for the individual students who come, go through the program and then move on but really the school's cumulative impact. I think when you look at the opportunity that we have through a second campus in Morganton to number one, increase the number of students who have the experience but also look at the opportunity that it creates for us to impact in a different setting in a different part of our, you know, great state, the extended opportunities that the school offices offers in terms of reaching out and partnering with local communities all across the state. I got excited because of the amount of independent business that's thriving in Morganton and the surrounding areas, the amount of corporate industry kind of presence that has over the last decade or so really established themselves throughout the Unifor region surrounding Burke County and within Burke County and so there's a lot of momentum in my mind in that part of the state. The need there is for someone to shine a spotlight on it. Grayson Cooper, an NCSSM alumnus, has served on the core planning team for the Western campus. So the notion that we can have more students across the state have access to those kinds of caliber of experience that are going to give them a jumpstart not only in terms of the content but in terms of like what they're really curious about and interested in is really exciting for me. We have tried to be as inclusive in our process as possible to maximize the inputs that affect the direction of the plan and so as we built out the educational program plan and simultaneously the master facility plan for the site what we've been doing is kind of collecting feedback that would direct or inform those plans. You know top of all that what you have is you have a team, that same team, Kevin Baxter's team, the Fright Institute and Duty Payne, you would think that they've been together for 20 years doing this but it's really been just six, seven or eight months. They are a partnership of a collaboration and they are working extremely well together. It's really impressive. We think that's a win-win. It's actually a win-win-win. It's a win for NCSSM. It's a win for the industries and it's a win for the state of North Carolina. So we're excited about that in particular.


For Paul, when it comes to the Covenant, Gentiles get in and stay in by the Spirit alone. The Galatians had abandoned this train of thought. Thinking they didn't have enough skin in the game, they opted to be circumcised in accordance with God's command, and who could argue with that? Paul could. He may not have had a problem with his fellow Jews abiding by the law, but he refused to allow his Gentile churches to do the same. Paul argues against the law from the law. Accuses the Galatians of being under a spell and wishes that the knife would slip and castrate the one who's holding it. There's a cold steel edge here that's resulted in 2,000 years of anti-Semitism on the part of the church, making Galatians an incredibly difficult read. May we have eyes to see and ears to hear.


Ryan Mitchell with the Alabama Cooperative Extension System. Today I'm on a site in Monroe County, Alabama. It's hard to imagine 20 years ago we'd be standing in the middle of a newly planted cotton field and now we're standing in the middle of a longleaf pine plantation. When this site was taken out of cotton production it was planted in longleaf with the objective of raking pine straw. Pine straw is a valuable non-timbered forest product for many landowners. It provides an early return on your investment and quite a bit of money over the long run of a stand. Many longleaf stands can begin being raked for pine straw around age six to eight maybe ten years old and can be raked throughout their teenage years until first thinning. In areas where they do not have a extremely developed pine straw market you still may be able to rake after your first thinning. The first thing you should do when contemplating whether or not to plant longleaf on your old ag site is to test the soil. In addition to the macronutrients make sure to include the micronutrients as well. If you've applied any poultry fertilizer in the past it could cause a problem down the road. One of the issues we run into on old ag sites is pitch canker. Once a pitch canker gall develops this wood quality is lost from that point on. It's okay for pine straw but we get a big wind event the tree will snap off if it doesn't get burned up beforehand. When establishing longleaf on an old agriculture site it is important to check for a hard pan. Oftentimes you'll need to subsold or rip the site in order to fracture the hard pan and allow the longleaf seedlings to develop a better root system. Another practice recommended is scalping. Scalping peels back the top three to four inches of soil usually 30 to 40 inches wide which by the longleaf seedlings about a year's worth of reduced competition. Do not recommend planting an old ag site or an old field without scalping and ripping. Another important consideration when creating a pine straw contract is specifying who will clean up the site. Sticks and pine cones need to be removed from the areas that are going to rake. Just make sure they're not piled up at the base of our desirable trees. When these piles burn they're going to burn for a lot longer time and in turn will probably cause damage to our desirable trees. Also in the absence of fire woody species may invade the site such as this Chinese privet. It is an invasive herbicides are a great option but we need to specify which herbicides cannot be used in the stand. Some herbicides even when following label recommendations can damage mature longleaf trees. When raking pine straw the contractors are targeting the newest straw which is usually more red in color. After the straw has been on the ground for a year it turns a little gray and that is not desirable. Longleaf averages between 50 and 200 bales of straw per acre per year. It is important when creating a contract to specify are you selling the straw on a per acre basis or a per bale basis. Prices per bale are usually higher when sold on a per bale basis but it often leaves a little bit to be desired if you're an absentee landowner where you cannot get an accurate count on how many bales are being raked. Harvesting pine straw is a good opportunity for an alternative income source from your timberland. If you're interested in more information please check out the extension publication titled Harvesting Pine Straw for Profit. Questions landowners should ask themselves. A link is provided in the summary. Also if you have any ideas for additional video content or questions you want answered please post them in the comment section. Thanks! Have a great day!


Hey everyone, welcome back to theCUBE. The leader in live tech coverage live from Caesars Palace. This is day two of our coverage of CrowdStrike Falcon 23, Lisa Martin, Dave Vellante. We have alumni back with us. We saw them yesterday. You saw it too, because I know you were watching theCUBE.net. Daniel Bernard rejoins us, Chief Business Officer at CrowdStrike. Great to have you back, Daniel. Lisa, great to be here. How are you doing at the end of almost day two? Great. I think I'm even more excited on day two as we head into the final stretch of Falcon than I was at the beginning. So many great announcements, so much going on, so much feedback from the customers and partners. Talk to us about some of the feedback from the ecosystem, the customers and partners. A lot of double clicks today in Mike's keynote with the demos, lots of stuff going on, financial analysts going on, investor relations. What's some of the feedback that you've heard? I think first thing thematically is customers are like, and partners, wow. CrowdStrike has pedaled to the metal on innovation. CrowdStrike is changing cybersecurity. That's the first takeaway. Look at the number of announcements that we've put out. Marketplace, Falcon for IT, everyone's excited about Charlotte, Foundry, the acquisition of Bionic. The list goes on and on and on, and we could spend a lot of time talking about each of these areas. But first and foremost, it's that the pace of innovation at CrowdStrike is unbelievable. Second, people love being around the ecosystem. Look at this room, it's buzzing with activity. The ecosystem loves it, because guess who's here? A bunch of happy CrowdStrike customers. I had a sister come up to me and tell me this is like the wood stock of cybersecurity. So it's a bunch of people who are super passionate about what we do, how we do it, working with us, and that's just infectious. So you can't replicate that. We're blessed to have this ecosystem around CrowdStrike and really see what this event shows is that CrowdStrike is Cybersecurity's ecosystem. And I think that's something that's really starting to come to the forefront at an event like this. So the drum roll, I got up because I had to do the cube, was leaving the room. I wanted to wait to hear who won partner of the year and then of course it was AWS. Not a shock, right? So, okay, let's talk about that relationship. I mean, the company is basically biggest partner built on a big chunk of the company built on AWS. So it makes sense, but nice to reward them, recognize them and maybe even get some reciprocal love. Well, I think what's really special about our relationship with AWS, yes, CrowdStrike was conceived and built in AWS. So from day one, we've been partners. The go-to market that we have with AWS through Marketplace is fantastic. And it's unlike any other ISV. It's the envy of the industry. AWS sellers talk about CrowdStrike. They bring us into their cloud deals.  You do it with CrowdStrike. Before, we even took that to endpoint as well. And so we have one of the largest businesses from an ISV perspective with AWS out of all of the vendors that they have because our go-to market is so focused on driving better outcomes with AWS. To take it one step further, we've really shaped how software vendors and with AWS go-to market, namely with the channel. So if you remember back to when the marketplace came out, it was this disruptive new way for enterprises to consume software. That was the supply chain. Well, here at CrowdStrike, there's a supply chain that involves our reseller partners that sit in between the marketplace and the end customer. And what we've worked a lot with AWS on is making sure that supply chain is intact, rewards the resellers for talking about and solutioning with us, and still rewards AWS.  And today that's the definitive motion that everybody's using, and we pioneered that with them. But this partnership's alive, it's global. They offer really exciting incentives to our customers and prospects for choosing CrowdStrike and using it on AWS. Yeah, big win-win-win. And I think I'm correct in that, didn't AWS reorganize and put the marketplace and ISV organizations together? They have. And so that's like, gives it additional momentum. That's made so much sense to me. Yeah, the velocity is there and the focus is there. We have initiatives on driving cloud security. We have initiatives on some competitive takeouts. We have initiatives on helping customers do longer term deals and having that be part of broader AWS initiatives. So there's a lot of shared connective tissue and when you have customer, when you're thinking about customer obsession and you have that shared vision, amazing things can happen. What are the criteria for that? I mean, you do this, I didn't see this last year. Did you do this last year? This is the first time. It's the first time we've done partner of the year on the main stage. And I think it really exemplifies one of my pieces of coming to CrowdStrike around, we're putting partners at the center of what we do and that we need and we will and we are leveraging the power of the crowd to get to where the company is going. So no better way to do it than celebrate the success we have with AWS. We also were awarded AWS's ISV vendor of the year earlier and they work with over 3,000 software ISV vendors. So this isn't just a security thing. Like you look at the pool of everyone they work with, we were selected as the one to get their award. I mean, you're talking about companies like Snowflake, right, who has extremely great relationship. I mean, kind of similar sort of love fest and many, many others. Do you have a rule like you can't win it twice in a row? We'll have to see. You got to come back next year and let's get on the show. No, we have thousands of partners and so many of them do meaningful things and have built sizable businesses around CrowdStrike. So we got plenty of awards to give out. It's the hard parts choosing one. Some of your favorite partner stories that really you think exemplify just that and what partners are building around CrowdStrike. Sure, I'll give you a couple. I'm sure you have a ton. Yeah, we could spend the next couple of hours doing it. I mean, let's start with a partner like Dell attaching CrowdStrike on the box, selling our subscription licensing, building services offerings around it, also offering monthly consumption options for small and medium businesses. That's an end-to-end partnership globally that out of the gate is performing exceptionally well and helping us win new market share. Let's look at a partner in Malaysia. Let's go to Malaysia next. I sat with this partner three weeks ago. They came out of nowhere, they're a public company and this partner, you wouldn't even recognize the name, this partner doesn't even sell Endpoint. They're like, we don't even want to get in the Endpoint market. We just want to sell your cloud security offering because we do cloud transformations. Lots of great work also going on with the Indian outsourcers, the GSIs, folks like TCS, folks like HCL, folks like Infosys, lots of exciting things going on there as they take companies on technology transformation journeys. And then of course our VAR channel, whether it's Optif, whether it's GuidePoint, remains strong, resilient. These partners really focus on CrowdStrike. Worldwide technologies is another great one. So the list goes on and on all around the world of companies that have built cyber security businesses on, through, around CrowdStrike. Speaking of the GSIs, I mean, I see, I mean, Deloitte is here, but, Deloitte, yeah.  I was surprised. I mean, these guys mentioned TCS, HCL Infosys, PWC Accenture, IBM, I don't know, Deloitte. I would expect they're going to start, they're going to get it. I saw this with the service, NowEcoSystem, when it was like, you had companies like Cloud Sherpa, you know, and a couple others I can't even remember. And then all of a sudden the GSIs are like, whoa, there's, there's food in that trough. Let's go, and that's going to happen here. You just feel it. Totally, and I mean, let's look at Deloitte as an example. They built a meaningful and sizable global practice around CrowdStrike, and what's unique about them is they built a services offering called Managed XDR. They even built Managed XDR to bring XDR to life on our platform before our team had managed XDR. So they took the initiative there and they've sold it to Fortune 500 customers all around the world. They do cloud security transformations with us when they're doing cloud projects. They're bringing CrowdStrike in to do the security parts of it. They're a huge partner with AWS, so we work together with AWS and Deloitte at the same time. There's a reason they have a big booth here. They have a big business here. Yeah, well, and to your earlier point about the importance of partners. It just, it drives sales productivity. You can't do it all alone. We've seen so many companies that have gone kind of kicking and screaming into the indirect channel, but it's the formula for today. I mean, AWS is proving the power of the ecosystem. And a lot of the companies that were built on AWS, you guys have mentioned Snowflake before, are taking similar sort of playbooks and building ecosystems on top of that. So you're not even, to me, you're not even ISV anymore. There's ISVs, you're a platform, and companies are building on top of your platform. Yeah, what's really special is the number of companies out here that are actually building on the Falcon platform. What I mean by that is they're embedding our threat intelligence and their offerings because they want the adversary expertise and knowledge that only CrowdStrike has. They're using log scale to replace legacy SIM products and having CrowdStrike be the back end of their business because this isn't just like a technology partnership. This is a big bet that they want to place on a strategic alignment with CrowdStrike. So that's kind of a whole new level of partnership that we're driving the outcome for the customers, but we're also driving a whole business around what we do with our partner. Well, you're foundational to those partners. Exactly. That's huge. Yeah, and I think if you look at the market, there's a lot of companies, people are like, are they going to be here tomorrow? Are they going to be private? Are they going to be acquired by private equity? You know, you can't build a foundational, you can't build a foundational backbone on something like that, you know. This is something where everyone that's here knows this is a company that's changed cybersecurity as we know it, and the innovation isn't stopping. You guys do a good job of that. Throw a little fun into the marketplace with you. Hey, why not? But the point being you got momentum. You're not going anywhere. You're going to be an independent company for, you know, public companies for a long time. What are the details on the Accelerate program? Yeah, Accelerate, it really, it's the right time in our trajectory as we map chapter two, which is a heavily partner focused chapter for the company and scaling the company to help our partners accelerate. So it's all about making sure we have the right education programs, and the right activation programs to unlock into the fact that one, we have more products than ever before to sell. You saw the announcements just here at Falcon, but there's about 27 modules on the platform. So we need to create the opportunity and make it easy for partners to understand that opportunity. So a key part of Accelerate is one, the fact that we have more products, we need the right kind of enablement for that. So we have a program we put out called Crowd Class. If you've ever watched Master Class, you know, there's some really good storytellers on there. I really like consuming information that way. And I think like if you go and look at some of the legacy vendors and how they train partners, you could, it's akin to watching paint dry on a wall because it's kind of boring. You know, I'm not trying to be, you know, it's got to be revamped for people that have an attention span that's shorter than 10 minutes. So what Crowd Class is, is it's experts at CrowdStrike, sharing the passion, the expertise, and the knowledge they have about our domain with partners, here's how and why they sell, here's how and why we're different. And it's for two audiences, it's for the sales audience, it's also for the technical audience. So more products than the enablement of more products. That's one, two, faster engagement. So everything we do with our ecosystem, the challenge that I gave to the team is make it cut the time down by half. So from time that a partner says I have an opportunity to when our sales team's in there working with them, I want to cut down in half. A key part of cut it down in half is also let's amp up the rewards that we have. So we debuted CrowdCard. What CrowdCard is, it's a CrowdStrike brand. It's a really cool day. It's a really cool branded black credit card that partner sales reps and sales engineers can use. And what CrowdCard is, it's our way of incentivizing the field organizations of all partner types to land with new logos and expand with the Falcon platform. And of course you get a higher payout on cloud identity and log scale next-gen SIM. The last part of the Accelerate program is on helping us amplify and create demand for our partners. So tools like the grid, which is self-service marketing portal, they can create their own campaigns without us, self-service. We have concierge marketing programs for our higher tier partners. We have live events all around the world happening all the time that are activation and enablement focused. We also have live events that are customer and demand-gen focused. So it's the whole go-to-market piece of how do we build a business together. So it's a novel, interesting, exciting program and it's all about one thing, going faster, Accelerate. What a machine. I mean this is music to the ecosystem's ears because you're making an investment at the end of the day. For them it's about, hey, how do we make margin, drive revenue, drive growth? That's right. And keep customers protected from the breach. I mean, as long as we keep that at the forefront, which is what we do, we're going to build the right app around us around that to make CrowdStrike the best company to do business with and build a business around. Because it's like the gift that keeps on giving. You land with some modules, you've got plenty more to bring them and plenty more to solution around it. And it's like pick your own journey on that journey. Well, and there's an interesting services opportunity with George's infinite loop that he put up. You know, the foundry and the custom workflows that a lot of these companies say, hey, you don't have the expertise, we can help. Totally. I mean, I think what Falcon shows, the announcement shows and what the market success, what we're doing is like, there's moments. And you've seen it with so many companies. You guys track and monitor. You're part of the discussion with so many of technology's great companies over the last couple of decades. There's moments when they just accelerate and blossom and become something. And CrowdStrike's been on that kind of journey for the last number of years, creating the EDR category, changing how people do security, becoming the viable alternative to legacy AV. And we're at that moment now where we can go in the cloud where we can displace the legacy SIM. So much innovation happening on the platform. And you know, all the signs are there for that moment and the blossoming. And that's what we're here as a team to execute on. You've seen it with the great software companies in our industry. I mean, think about ServiceNow, we talked about them before, you know, HelpDesk, ITSM, and now it's just customer service management and you know, such a great expansion. Look at Salesforce, you know, started out as, you know, CRM. All right, and now look at the company. Mentioned Snowflake before, oh, data warehouse. Well, you know, look at it growing. You guys, yeah, we start with, you know, EDR endpoint. Now 23 modules growing. AI, 27 now. Can't keep track, Daniel. But if you look at it, Dave, it's like, okay. Salesforce. No hardware, change the CRM industry, you know, change databases forever. Workday, did it for HR. Who was the software-only vendor to do that for security? And I think that's, you know, credit to George. That's what he talks about is like, he thought through in this cloud era, the companies that are transforming their spaces and there was nobody for the cloud era of security and that's what CrowdStrike. CrowdStrike brought security to the cloud for the cloud era. AI native from the beginning, huge opportunity and that's what we're building. So the speed of innovation is there. You talked about that in the beginning of our interview. We talked, you guys talked about speed the last couple of days with the great Formula One references, Lewis Hamilton. On brand. The Mercedes AMG Petunas car is here. What's next, where do you go from here? Up into the right, obviously. Sure. But with the flywheel going so fast. Yeah, I mean, we just launched Accelerate. We got to get all of our partners accelerated on the Accelerate program and, you know, these things have, people need to chew it and digest it. I mean, there's so much we can do. There's, we're investing aggressively, internationally in new markets. We have in our existing customer base, so many products to upsell and bring to our customers. We have new logos. Half the market is still on legacy AV. The list goes on and on. There's no shortage of what to do. It's just making sure we have the right kind of alignment as a company and with our partners around what are the goals. And the goals are one, let's go win the market. There's still plenty of market, like I was saying on legacy AV. Two, let's go back to our existing install base and make sure that they're consuming more and more and more of the platform. That's a great opportunity for everybody else. And three, let's make sure the pace of innovation continues and it's not just innovation in the product. It's innovations in programs like Accelerate. Keep that pedal to the metal. And if as long as we do those things and stay focused on the customer, future's very bright. Accelerate, perfect name. Daniel, thank you so much for coming back on, coming on theCUBE twice at Falcon. My pleasure. You're bringing us a great visibility into the state of the business. Congrats on a great show, too.  Absolutely fantastic. We appreciate your time, your insights. Can't wait for next year. Pleasure to be here, thanks a lot. All right, our pleasure. For our guests and Dave Vellante, I'm Lisa Martin. You've been watching theCUBE live from Caesars Palace, day two of our coverage, CrowdStrike Falcon. Dave and I will be right back with our wrap of the show. Stick around.


Hello everybody, welcome back to JSA TV and JSA podcast. We are live here from beautiful Honolulu a PTC 24 I am here with Robert Davidson founder and CEO of carbon technologies. Thanks for joining me Robert. No, thank you for having me Yeah, absolutely. So we were actually Went to your very beautiful Lou out party that you all hosted on the islands. When was that two days ago? Saturday night. Yeah, I mean beautiful night beautiful. Absolutely gorgeous Really amazing events and so you all have a big presence here at PTC so we want to get some insight out to our our JSA TV viewers about what you've got going on So I think because you've never been on JSA TV before it might be in order for you to just give us a quick run down of Who carbon is and and why you all were founded? All right, great, and thank you for the time. So as you mentioned carbon is new So we're a new startup company. We're looking to solve a critical aspect of the industry that I think has been hanging out there for way Too long. I Historically ran central Lincoln quest international network for 18 years and my single largest issue was working within dealing with the data center operators If you think about it, most of the data center operators are focused on you How do the cell services and it's a very bifurcated market? So I said well someone's got to take a look at how people want to consume So I took a step back and said I'm going to solve these problems So that's really what carbon does and what lattice our platform that went live last month effectively does So if you think about it, there are hundreds of data center operators out there any global telco or enterprise is going to be working with 40 6 to 80 a hundred of them that means a hundred different web portals business processes billing formats That gets to be an incredibly manual and incredibly analog process to sort through and figure out I had a team of five people who did nothing all day, but manually try to grind through bills order processes trouble ticketing But now carbon lattice is live and has the ability to talk to the API stacks of all the major operators and give people a single view effectively think of us as the Google translate for Data center infrastructure information So bills can come in in a consistent format. You can see your order queue all look the same If there's an escalation you need it, you'll know where it is We'll connect the data to where you need it to be without a number of people needing to do manual rekeys all the time Hmm very focused perfect. Well, that was beautifully stated. It's almost like you've you've given that before It's my pain. Yeah, all I'm doing is solving my single largest problem as an operator of telcos for 18 years, right? That's amazing. Awesome. So so tell us a little bit. Are there any like obviously the the lattice platform is live? Are there any More recent updates about like latest advancements coming out anything that you want to kind of give us the the latest on there Yeah, great. And thank you So the first product offering or function that we've released is with regard to cross-connect orchestration And that leads into the partnership that we've just recently signed with connect base, you know a global Platform for pricing provisioning and ordering of network services that could get you data center to data center in seconds We're partnered with them to get the ability to order flow the cross-connect So for the first time working with them rack to rack including the network So completing that final piece so people can Automatically order and not have to break up orders into little bits and pieces So what you'll be seeing coming from carbon next is what we call expense management carbonates Which effectively will be the market's first platform that will be able to pull your inventory pull your bill match it to your bill To be able to give you an exception report if you think about it How many companies out there are getting hundreds of PDF files from all these data center operators that teams of Analysts have to grind through to try to figure out what doesn't match No one wants to look through another three thousand line invoice, but they want is it a report that says these 20 items don't match Just focus here. We think this will be a huge win. I know when I was at central link I would have loved to be that focused and just honing in on what I needed to work Yeah, excellent excellent. So one last question What is carbon's kind of stake in the sustainability conversation? Everybody's talking about at this conference and all digital infrastructure conferences right now So how are you helping data center operators to be more environmentally focused? Well, we actually have a very interesting spin on that because many of the data center operators that we're speaking to actually produce Information around ESG or compliance around standards. The issue is is that they're all in different formats So it's very hard for their customers base to actually use that information in any really conceivable format So what we're doing is we're saying okay, we're going to connect to all of you We're going to pull in that information and we're going to get it into what we conveniently call sort of a CVR for ESG Royal Yotelco heads out there a call detail record for ESG a standard unit So that people can start to actually use and see what their consumption is in a fashion that they can now plug into their models They can look and put into their systems where we want to see people use that information is Where do I deploy my equipment if I deploy it here versus here? Am I actually achieving a better footprint? So those analysis are very difficult and very manual right now and we see this becoming very critical with the advent of AI People are looking for AI engines to make more decisions about how they're deploying infrastructure For AI to be of any use to anyone it needs access to that information and it needs access to the information In a consumable format that it can actually make analysis around. That's what we do Perfect, I think that's the perfect way to wrap it up. Thank you so much for joining us today Robert Thank you for your time. Yeah, absolutely And thank you to our viewers for hanging out with us here at live from PTC at 24. Happy networking. All right


All right, separate traders, welcome on back here this Wednesday, October 5th, especially August. October 5th, great to see Mark, great to see Andre. And the few of us still joining us here inside the live trading room. A bit of a quiet afternoon thus far, but the market is pushing back up, spy back up to yesterday's highs. It's technically down percentage wise on the days, still a little bit, still holding underneath yesterday's close, but it's right there. So great to see Ron, Dan, Mark, Lada, Jeff, Ray, great to see Ray here with us. So let's hop right into it here, the kit trade, at least for right now. It's still pretty volatile. It's trading some good volume based on the order book and definitely on the day. So it leaves you to think at what points does this stock begin to exhaust out? Well, given that, I mean, this is still right near the highs. It was pushing back up pretty nicely, ended up bottoming out just earlier in the afternoon off the five level. So ended up making a nice bounce from there, but it took a while for this to make the cleaner pop since. And still, it's been a bit rugged even after trying to squeeze up over $6 here. So right now, we'll put this on our watch list just to begin. K-I-T-T, all right. You know what? I'll bring up level four for this trade, if anything. I was going to start by going over the Mara trade, which we were commenting on earlier and just a moment ago inside the trading room. But let me bring up level four. Let me bring up book map here for right now. It doesn't really seem like there's a clear iceberg on the ask up until 640. It crashed above this one here at $6.20 and from there pulled back. So that could still be a resistance coming up here, starting to take a little bit of a pop right now. So perhaps 620 is our next resistance. And then from there, perhaps up higher at 640, right? We'll go back and forth with this here, folks. But the kit trade will definitely put on our watch list. So it's not just the market moving up. But I'll tell you, earlier this morning, at least in kit right now, there's plenty of stocks that ended up making some big moves. And thankfully, this top trade ended up giving us a hell of a lot more compared to what we were really looking for from pre-market. So it's easy to leave money on the table for a trade like this. But this one is really choppy before it ended up re-breaking higher. So that's where you can get tripped up thinking it's going to reverse or pull back. We isn't me. So with that, I was looking for a big move off the bottom blue line here at 758. There was about a 66,000, 68,000 share print that was filled earlier today. It ran up from the morning. It got halted on the way up. Well, when it reopened up off its halt, whatever that was, we ended up seeing a big print right off of 758 for about 66,000, 68,000 shares. It just took a while for that move to really materialize. But it ended up pulling back under and over. This is where I got chopped up here because I thought it was going to break lower here and pull back. This stock has been pretty illiquid. And with that, it can make a big move. So obviously we saw the end result. This ended up re-breaking the resistance off the eight level and 790. So it did lead to another entry, at least that we were able to take. But man, this thing was a little shaky at first, kind of like the AERC from yesterday. So you hope to see a quicker move. But as long as you have faith in the levels that you see from level three and level four, it could be a great trade still from a higher price. So you have to remember that. Keep that psyche in mind for the amount of times that it needles that resistance at eight. If it fails to reverse and go the other way, well, hey, the more times it stabs it going up, it should look to make that pop. Now from that point, the more it goes up, then you wonder when is it going to begin to pull back or the other way. So the more it squeezes, then it's easier for you to chase, easier for you to miss out on it, basically. You don't want to chase it. So with that, this ended up consolidating a little bit higher off the 11 level later on, and then just now, like giant shakes. So that's the part of the trade that we all fear. That's the part of the trade that you don't want to be a part of. We know for as much as this pumped up, not just today, but from yesterday and a little bit back from Tuesday this week or Monday this week, ended up seeing the stock begin to shake right back down. So you can't guarantee a higher high later on this afternoon, just the way this is trending here. I'm not as inclined to put this on our main list just yet. I'll come back to it perhaps at the end. The kit trade, re-breaking above six right now. We're gonna see if that can make the pop up towards 620 like we had mentioned a moment ago. Let's go from top to bottom. Otherwise though, we have a couple of other crazy ones here like SHFS. Thing ends up making a couple of big pops earlier today. Shortly after the market opened up, popped and got halted. Shortly going into the late morning early afternoon, popped and got halted. But that doesn't mean it's gonna be a great trade and especially something this ill liquid. This is worse than tops. This is worse than any other stock that we actually did call out. So we didn't really focus on this nearly as much. Thankfully so, ended up popping up greatly but pulled back, steady downtrend. This move is done. All right, what else we got? Well, I'll tell you, we didn't focus on SHFS as much but we did focus on the PEGY. PEGY ended up making a pretty good push shortly after the market opened up. It was great trade from pre-market too. So we talked about that from the morning meeting. The stock I think was number two on the very brief and short watch list I made for you folks this morning. You know, the difference between myself and Fausto. Fausto is a 30 year plus pro of doing this, right? You know, I'm going on eight years.  So tomorrow, and I didn't really mean to plan it out this way in front of the meeting. I really didn't recognize this until right now. Wow, tomorrow marks eight years, how about that? But nonetheless though, that does not compare to Fausto and being a 30 year plus pro. He keeps it simple. He'll produce a brief and short watch list and it's really efficient. Myself, you know, more often than not I'll see the opportunity within different trades and I'll make a bigger list, right? Well, I'll tell you right now, I had four stocks in the main watch list here for the market open and PEGY was one of them. KIT was one of them. The two others were duds, unfortunately. BNGO and VEV. But hey, you know, with the shorter watch list this morning we were able to have a bigger focus on this trade and this we were able to take full advantage of ended up breaking above to 20 pre-market high and then from there ended up lifting. So, you know, more or less steady trend up over three but again, just like we talked about on tops for as much as this pushed up. When is it gonna pull back? When is it gonna make a false breakout?  So, you know, a little bouncier I guess but I don't know this PEGY I feel like for right now is definitely done. Great, great trade from this morning though that's for sure. Keep it on your side list for tomorrow. And hey, if this pop's going into the closing will obviously be following it if it has more life to it coming up but right now, not just yet. All right, what else we got here? BHVN, I saw Mark pick up like 40 cents on this trade 38 or 40 cents on this trade ended up pushing up really nicely. It looks like a new IPO, very illiquid. That's like the theme of the day today I feel like. I ended up making a big pop all-time highs I reckon but it's not really worth it right now. There are much better trades that could go with the market spies pushing back up here. So, you know, it could be a good, I'd said it from the morning, thankfully we were correct in saying it but you know, this was a good day to follow some sideless stocks, the airlines, the cruise line there, you know, my, you know, the EV trades like NEO and XPEV and a lot of different stocks GM and Ford and you name it but nonetheless though, I mean, that could be the same to be said for the close by NDO, nice pop from the morning here too. A little pop pulled back and ended up actually making a nice move going into the open. This really is right from 780. One of our students, Ray, got like 20, 25 cents I think it was, you know, right from the, maybe more, I don't want to discount them there but right off the 780 level, we're going over that on our coaching call today but nonetheless, right now not really a whole lot happening here. Good stock from earlier today. Just like AERC from yesterday. We had the HUSA stock from earlier today too. I'm sure we'll run into that. There we go. Right here on the gainer side. We got Chewy up big, all right? Treating about 14,000 shares a minute across the last series of, you know, 20 or so minutes. It's doing all right. I mean, it's tradable. If you did well on Chewy earlier today then you should definitely look to follow it yourself or if this is a stock that you do pretty well on more often than not and it's like on your side lose, you know, then then that's definitely a good, you know, trade for you to personally follow. If we don't really have as much else to really put on our list then I definitely will add this. See if there's anything looking a little bit more special pushing up pretty nicely at the highs perhaps and the phase trade pop earlier today. Phase not really trading a whole lot of volume per minute right now. Yeah, pop and drop. Geez, that's dangerous. So I get called out earlier on the way up but I didn't check in with it literally until right now. You just assumed that it was gonna drop off. The stock has a history of doing that off its IPO. All right, I mean, it tops move up. Stocks below a dollar though, ship. I doubt this is made to move. Yeah, that's not really doing a whole lot. So as stock I wanna take a look at because it has GapFill opportunity but I don't know how far away it is from the Gap for it to begin to fill. ARDX, well it's been pushing up recently on the daily. It still has a ways to go though, back from like, what is that, like 2.15 or so roughly right here. So it's been moving up pretty nicely here at least testing the highs back from September, August. That is September, 148 right there. Just slow though on the intraday. That's the issue. All right, let's hop over to the loser's side right now folks. Again, we'll check in with any of our side list stocks here at the end, airlines, cruise lines, casino stocks, EV stocks, non-EV stocks, whatever you want me to look at here at the end folks, type it in the chat board, let me know, I'll go through my own little list. As you see, I saw this as a short, like a week or two ago. Yeah, you can see from the daily chart this thing got clipped from like 15 down to 10, dropped off the next day.  It's just not really doing a whole lot though. I mean, it's tradable. It's like more like level one, level two-ish. Wouldn't hurt us to put this on our main list. Just I wanna see if there's anything looking more like volume packed or more of a name brand stock maybe. Maybe something less expensive than EMPH, which is a pretty name brand stock given the price. We ended up seeing this make a nice drop earlier this morning I recall, it's popped up on my scanner. But again, just so expensive. So we're not really as interested in following that. Actually, you know what? Let me just double check something because when this moves, I believe SPWR makes a similar move, Sunpower, it's down over 5%. More liquid order book, obviously a lot cheaper. Not terrible. Oh wow, F sales down a sneaky 8%.  You're not gonna get anything on this trade that you'd be happy with, like respectable profit wise. If you can get like the resense on this trade, I feel like that's like a giant victory plug on the flip side, right?  You gotta assume plugs making a similar type of trend plug. At least you can get a little bit more sense on a trade if you're trading the same share counter, whatnot. At least plugs, the more volatile move. So plug, I'll put on our list here, at least tradable. It is pushing back up though. So at the market still at the highs here, you might get a small dead cat bounce here and plug into the close, that's always possible. All right, I'll tell you folks, there could be more left across the gainers or losers list here. Type it in the chat board though otherwise. Let me know if there's anything I missed. Mark's saying plug or I'm not plugged. He's F and GR high of the day. Mark, I'm gonna send a coaching link coming up very shortly. But yeah, F and GR, I don't think I ended up looking at this across the gainer side, did I? I skip over it. In my mind, I was going down the list. I was like, oh yeah, there was F and GR. Let me look at that. I may have gotten stuck on phase and went through a rant on that. Yeah, F and GR is obviously looking incredibly strong. So if I had missed that, that's my bet. Yeah, that's on the top of the list there. There we go. Numero uno. For any of us on social media, Facebook, or live YouTube, Stelene Pierce saying market will be up today and tomorrow. I hope so. Well, market certainly is up today. I mean, regardless of the close, if it's below yesterday's or not, I mean, it's been an incredible day thus far. And perhaps after hours, we'll see another big push. Certainly check in with Bitcoin coming up soon and see what happens with that going into the overnight session. All right, let me just check Benzinga Pro here, folks, very briefly. See if there's anything looking good on that side. Sober had a pop and drop. That was nasty. Envax, I see down a little bit. It's dropping off right now, I think. Yeah, it was moving up pretty nicely a moment ago, but pulling back. Yeah, it's just not really a whole lot happening there. F-O-X-O, I see that from the gainer's end. So just taking a look at that pretty quickly. You know, it's up big. I don't know if I missed out on this one or what. I mean, it's pushing up a little bit right now. So if I glossed over it, it was probably just very flat here at the time. So it looks like it did break over 150 and the VWAP off 151. As of now, it doesn't look bad. I'll put this on our list. F-O-X-O, you know, if it pulls right back under the VWAP there and 150, just I'd be really careful. Speaking of being really careful, I hope you had your stop set. Man, nasty shake.  Did we not call out the resistance? We were saying 620. And if it breaks above that, then 640. But, you know, just a moment ago, this ended up moving perfectly up to 620. It broke above it, yes, but it made a false breakout. So when it breaks above that level, if it's such a big resistance from earlier today, you got to expect a pretty big move shortly after, right? Just like we always talk about. Now, why do I bring it up that way? Because obviously look at the end result. So, you know, this actually could have went quicker on the way down. On the same bar that could have tagged.  I think it's time to get out. And then, bam. So, that's obviously not a good sign of this kit trade. When a stock gets halted on the way down, it's normally a wrap. That's normally game over. So, you know, I guess I'll leave it on our list, but it'll be right at the bottom. So not looking nearly as good now at this point, right? All right, folks. Well, I'll tell you what. Short list here heading into the afternoon. Let me just check out the side list ones here at the end. NEO dropped off quite a bit today. Now, it's pushing back up towards 16.  That was the monthly close open. Ray, I don't know if Ray S is tuning into this meeting right now. We were just on a coaching call earlier. I hope he's in right now. It's testing 16 here currently. You got the VWOP in 16, but nonetheless, you know, just a side list stock. We're not going to put this on our main list right now. American Airlines at the high is very similar trend to the spy right now. Just nothing really too special about it. Pretty slow. We don't really want slow here at this point going into the close. Just because stocks are at the highs, it doesn't mean that they're going to run, right? So you want to find something that's like as much bang for your buck as possible. With that, maybe a couple of different stocks here, like maybe like an LCID. Just briefly checking in with that. This doesn't look half bad moving up to 15 AMD. I mean, more expensive, mind you, but trend looks beautiful. So there's a lot that looks like this, right? But if there's something that's more price efficient and moving up pretty nicely, more bang for your buck, definitely let me know. I know the other day we were talking about the meme stocks making a bit of a push up. Unfortunately, they didn't really continue going into the market close like AMC and the Bobby J trade bet bet beyond. Neither of them are really doing much right now. Mark saying PCG new 12 month high and a big candle at 238 Eastern time. PCG. I mean, let's take a look. Remember this drop? This is crazy. With the California wildfires, this was a wild month and a half. Let's put it that way. So that makes me more interested in seeing this become a faster moving trade. You have so much volume on the order book for this to cut through, though, I feel. So I'll put it on our list just more of a test to see what happens here. Just given such the drop off that we had, we've been wondering like, hey, when is PCG going to dead cap balance? Well, it hasn't. Up until maybe, potentially, hopefully, today. So notice how I phrase that, folks. Nothing guaranteed. It's on a beautiful trend right now, but we want this to become a faster moving trade going into the next 20 minutes, 30 minutes coming up here. Bill talking about the PEGY. Maybe that made another big move. It did. All right. Beautiful. Great call from Bill. Very timely. PEGY. Definitely going to put this on our list now. Nice pop back up. Very sudden, but we'll take it. So broke over the VWAP, broke over $250, and let's look for that to become support here coming up. I think we have a little time. So we'll see what comes to this trade, but very good call from Bill. All right, folks. Now at this point, I think that we're just about good here at this point. The kit trade just reopened up. In total, we've got six stocks to work with here going into the market close. Again, there's a lot that's up, but if you're only going to make pennies on the trade, I wouldn't find it to really be as worth it here going into this time of the day. This is prime time trading. Stocks like the PEGY, stocks like the FNGR, perhaps, even plug from earlier. That's actually making a pretty good squeeze. That's on the losers list, but making a good dead cap bounce. So there is opportunity out there, but it's up to you to be selective with it and know what's most worth your time. 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So the latest update patch is now live for console and pc for hugwarts legacy and today guys we get into this gigantic update. How's it going guys my name is dpj and if you do enjoy the video leaving a like really helps out tell me if you like what you see and want to see more be sure to subscribe. Okay so hugwarts legacy and one of the game's support tweet out attention witches and wizards it's time to save biscuit the latest patch for hugwarts legacy is now live for console and pc with full patch notes and i mean guys the patch notes are absolutely staggeringly massive now i ain't gonna read through them all if you want to do that yourself you can just pause the video and read them there will be all showcase within this video but reading through all these guys this video will go on for about 20 minutes and there's separate patch notes for both pc and console but there's an absolute ton i didn't even know there's this many issues with the games no wonder all gen consoles have been well set back delayed for another month but there's so much to go through here guys and unfortunately as far as i am aware there's still no fix or there's no fix listed here for the collectors trophy that may come out later there this is the one they spoke about about two weeks ago now but i said there was a patch coming for that biscuit issue you know the little moon coughs look in that cage this fixes that but at the same time it fixes many many other issues too again there's so many things here i didn't even know there's this many problems it seems as though there is more on pc than there is on console but hopefully this does fix any issues you may be having but yeah guys an absolutely massive patch for hugwarts legacy again if you want to read through them just pause the video and read what you'll see on the screen now all this pc first and then console and again hopefully this fixes any of the problems you are having but guys hopefully enjoyed the video and hopefully i will see you on that next one


I'm Grayson Penland, otherwise known as ComputerKid on IRC and stuff. I am the host and producer of the Fedora podcast. Edward is my co-host, he was going to be here but wasn't able to, and we've also got Michael here. He is our network partner from DLN. He's going to talk more later in the talk. Next slide. What is the Fedora podcast? If you just want to know at a very high level what the Fedora podcast is, all you really need to hear is this section. The Fedora podcast is a 25-45-minute podcast. It is released in seasons each season consisting of 10 episodes. Each episode comes out on every other Tuesday at 6 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time. It contains interviews with people around the Fedora community and news about Fedora. It is targeted at anyone who wants to learn more about Fedora. You should be able to hear it anywhere you listen to podcasts, but if you don't, please let us know because we want to make it that way. Our website is at podcast.fodoroproject.org, and it's produced by me and co-hosted, and it's also co-hosted by Edward. However, we're open to new hosts at any time. It would be really awesome if we could get some more hosts into this project. Timeline, where did it come from? It officially began in February of 2018, a project by the Fedora marketing team spearheaded by Edward. After a brief hiatus, I joined the team, and it started sort of era three of the show or season two, as we're calling it. So I started a new effort to refresh the podcast, trying to take the core values of the show and remake certain parts that might need to be refreshed. So it began then. Of course, while I led the effort, there were numerous people who helped immensely. Edward, of course, as a co-host, did a ton of the work, but we also had help from a Fedora contributor who goes by technology and makes music. He wrote us some amazing original theme music that you've heard on every episode in season two. Ryan Gorley from Fedora Design Team completely redesigned our website and all of our artwork, including making us some new logos with the new Fedora logo, which there was a talk given on earlier in this conference. Everything he made for us looks extremely professional. And if you want to see more from him, his website is freehive.com. And Michael Tunnell, who we have here in the camera right next to me, he is the co-founder of the Destination Linux Network and one of the biggest names in Linux podcasting. He provided us a ton of advice and even made us a show on the Destination Linux Network. So let's get more into that. One of the biggest changes in the new Fedora podcast is our partnership with DLN, the Destination Linux Network. For this part, I'm gonna hand the virtual microphone over to Michael to explain what DLN is and how we're working with them. So hi, everybody. Thanks, Grayson. I'm Michael Tunnell, a podcaster, YouTuber and open sourcer and co-founder of Destination Linux Network. The focus of the Destination Linux Network is to spread a new era of open source and Linux through education, entertainment, universal access and inspiration, I guess. DLN delivers high quality family friendly content across all forms of media, whether it's podcasting, videos, written content on front page Linux, all sorts of stuff. And part of our mission is to be community focused. So when we learned that the Fedora podcast was being revived, we were excited to participate however we could. Grayson took the advice that I offered and quickly exceeded expectations. He put a lot of work into the Fedora podcast when we were impressed by his hustle, so we wanted to get more involved as much as we could. And this led to a partnership between the Fedora project and DLN, which I think has been great for everyone. Yeah, DLN has been immensely helpful with giving us advice and support in the process of refreshing a podcast. Whatever you're doing, it's always just helpful to have someone on your team who has tons of experience. And that was DLN for us. They helped us avoid issues where we could have had issues and they showed us things that are hard to understand when you're new to this. Also joining up with DLN, it's safe to say that we got a benefit from DLN's marketing. By being part of the DLN community, we were able to get a huge listener boost quickly. I've personally talked to folks who got to know more about Fedora through learning and then listening to us through DLN, which I think is just awesome. Yeah, absolutely. And also Marie pointed out in the chat that DLN is also a media partner for Nest with Fedora. So there's that. Oh, that's true. Nice. Okay, so another change I mentioned is the release schedule. From here onwards, like I said, we're using a seasoned approach, not like with seasoning, but more of we're splitting it up into seasons. The first 10 episodes can now or considering them season one. After that is season two, which is what we're doing right now. Currently, we're six episodes into season two, which means we've got four more before we end this season. Each season, including season one, we'll have 10 episodes. And in season two, but possibly also in the future, like I said, releasing episodes every other Tuesday at six AM. I'm very hopeful that there will be a season three and that I can have a hand in it and sort of help out, but that will depend on my free time, how many other people are involved and that type of thing. The benefit of having seasons though is that we can stockpile episodes, topics, interviews, and ideas over the course of the off season. And then they can all be put together to make a new season. From my point of view, it's likely that over the school year, we're gonna slowly gather episodes and topics, then during the summer, we can really work on pushing everything together and releasing a new season. However, there's a chance that stuff could be coming sooner. So stay tuned. Perhaps we want to try some different stuff between the seasons. What I mean by that is we would like to try maybe doing different formats of episodes or doing extra long episodes or doing a breaking news episodes. And those would be something we could play with between seasons. It would kind of be like the time to just try new things before we set up a whole season. Okay, what we've been talking about in season two is we've been running with a theme of Fedora 34, talking about Fedora 34 things. For instance, we've talked about Butter FS, which was two parts, pipe wire and Kinoite. We've also talked about the KDE spin and the I3 spin. If you want to listen to those, you can find them at podcast.fodoroproject.org. Also in the future, we're gonna be talking about Nome 40 and some other topics. Okay, and next is how well that's all been going. If you were at the trivia, you heard that we recently hit 10,000 total downloads, which has been an awesome, awesome milestone. And today we do expect at least 500 downloads just on day one of releasing an episode. We can assume that most of those day one downloads are subscribers, even though we can't directly download that. And I think that's an awesome amount of downloads for just day one, especially since this podcast is really just in a niche community and it's only ever released 16 episodes that we're measuring with that 10,000. And yes, that does include streams, downloads and streams on any platform, go into that metric. Also, for any of you who have noticed that some of the questions in the trivia were outdated, we are now sitting at 14.5,000 downloads. Nice. Okay, why I think or at least hope that the Fedora podcast is important. I've personally always thought that podcasts were a really cool medium to get things out. They can be long or short, you can listen to them while doing many other things. They could be simple like the Fedora podcast or they can be complicated like a radio show. They can be done live or listen to years afterwards. Anyone with a microphone can make a podcast or you can build an entire team of people who have a career in this, just to make a single show if it's a really big show. I don't think that the Fedora podcast is ever gonna replace something like the Fedora magazine, but I do hope that it can find a comfortable spot in the Fedora community alongside things like the community blog, the magazine and conferences like this one to help folks learn about Fedora and what we're doing. Another thing is we have to keep up with everyone else. During COVID, podcasts have really blown up. Everyone these days has a podcast and listens to them. So now is a great time to have a podcast, possibly the best time ever. Also, Ubuntu has the Ubuntu podcast so like we gotta keep up with that and do better than them. There's also a thing about podcasting for, especially for Fedora and any kind of project like this, it is a very beneficial thing to get the word out for the things that you're doing. Like there's a lot of, that you talked about the Butterfest, the Pipe Wire and the Kino White stuff. There are things that people are just not aware of and this podcast makes it easier to, share specific things that people could learn as you're saying multitasking while they're doing other things. They can learn about those things and get people more aware of all the great stuff Fedora's doing. Definitely, it's a great way to get stuff out. Okay, and then my last thing is contributing. Right now, the Fedora podcast is mainly done by me, the host and producer and Edward, who's a co-host. Of course we want more contributors always. There are a few places in specific where we could use help. Speaking is one of them. If you have things to talk about, here is a place to talk about them. Let's say for instance, you're a packager who maintains a really cool package, just like I'm sure all packagers do. You can come on the podcast maybe and talk about that package to help more people learn about it. We could do an interview with you, you could explain it and then we could publish that after editing it or anything like that. If you want to do that, please reach out to us. We also would like people who connect kind of like correspondence, either by researching topics and then coming on the show to explain them or by going out and interviewing folks around the Fedora community. That would be super cool. We do have one guy who's working on this, but we'll keep that secret until it comes out. Also, audio engineering. Currently, I'm the only one who engineers audio, but if you have experience in it, then we could use you. You can be super helpful. So if that sounds interesting to you or you would want to do that, reach out to us. Spreading the word is another thing that we need. Just telling people about the Fedora podcast is super helpful. The podcast is pointless without listeners and without people talking about it, we won't have any more listeners. So please reach out to your friends maybe, people who are outside of the Fedora community, people who don't even use Linux and share the podcast with them if that sounds interesting to you. There are also probably other ways that you could help us, that we haven't even thought of yet. If that's true, you could reach out to us. How to reach out to us is right here. We've got our matrix room, pound fedora-podcast on matrix.org, our IRC room, pound fedora-podcast on Lavera Chat and those two are bridged together thanks to NB and the rest of the people working on that IRC thing and email podcast at fedora-project.org. And we've also got our packer, which is where most of this planning goes on, which is packer.io slash fedora-podcast slash issues. Every interview we're gonna do goes in there, every idea, every topic. So you could go there, you could look through these, recommend interviewees, ask how you can help in a specific one if it interests you or you could file new issues if there's something you want to talk about or something you want to hear about. And everyone who contributes will definitely get a shout out on the show and a fedora badge. So if you're trying to get as many badges as possible, we've got one that we're holding only for fedora-podcast contributors. I'm not sure if I have that badge yet, we need to fix that. Hey, I'm pretty sure I gave it to you. All right, I'll check. Yeah, so that's all I had on the list to talk about. If you have any questions, please put them in the QA section and I would be happy to answer them. Or maybe Michael, if there's some DLN questions. Okay, first question, best audio all day. How do you ensure the people you interview have good audio? So this is a problem that I think anyone who tries to do a podcast has to face because there are, most of the time guests just don't have good audio. They have their webcam mic, they have just their laptop. So we try to do our best by asking them, well, do you have earbuds? Cause that always makes it sound better. Do you have, do you have like any sort of microphone? But if they don't, we take that too. We do our best. We can impose processing, but we're never going to bar anyone off the show just because they don't have good audio. Also, there's a lot of things about when someone's a host of a show, they're expected to have good audio. If they're a guest of the show, there's a little bit more tolerance then for the audience. So it doesn't have to be the best quality audio for a guest. Obviously you want to put as much effort as you can as possible to get that, but it doesn't, it's not required most of the time. However, headphones are always required. Yes, never use speakers and a microphone. Speakers and a microphone are a bad combination. Very bad. Okay, next question.  Will you cut it out if I ask you?  Yeah, that's a wonderful question. If you ask, we will always cut it out if you don't feel like you want it to be shared on the podcast. It is your voice, not ours. And we're going to cut out anything you want us to cut out. Yeah, so we have had times where like someone just bungles a sentence, everyone does it. Sometimes we just cut that out or they say something that's wrong, everyone does that too, we just cut that out. And it's fine. The next question is, would you consider doing some episodes about seasoning like as in actual seasonings? Yes, we're going to talk about Recono on the next episode. Then later, we're going to do some cumin and then we're going to mix it up on the next one after that and do a sprinkle of like a surprise seasoning set. Yeah, so I would say in the off season, probably on Taco Tuesday. Yes. Maybe do one episode about taco seasoning. Absolutely. I'm down to participate in that one. If there's anyone in the audience that wants to talk about seasonings, specifically taco seasoning. For our Taco Tuesday episode. I like that question. I do too. How do the Fedora podcast listener statistics compare to other topical podcasts on DLN? The numbers sound really awesome to me, but I literally have no reference. Yeah, so I'm kind of the same way. So I'm just going to kick this question to Michael. He's got the best frame of reference here. I do. So the Fedora podcast is the most topical, the most specific to a particular thing related to like a, you know, the project itself, not necessarily like a all catch all thing. I guess the most the closest one to that is hardware addicts where it's a hardware related thing that's very specific to hardware, but you know, that itself is a giant topic. So it's not really comparable in that sense, but in terms of the downloads, it's a very good, especially since if you think about it's only been six episodes for the latest season and that like there's not that much to use in terms of creating a momentum yet. So that's why like the numbers are fantastic with the just few episodes that are already been there. So I mean, I was very surprised when I saw the, you know, the 500 downloads instantly, like that is a day one thing like that is fantastic. And you know, at some point, with hopefully season three, we're gonna be able to do that sometime as soon as possible with weather Grayson and someone else works on it. I think that there's gonna be a lot of potential for the Fedora podcast going forward too. Marie suggested that we do an April Fool's episode about seasoning. Sadly, we've already got an April Fool's episode because there are too many dumb things you can do on the Fedora podcast, but we'll see maybe we release twice in one day. Yeah, Sam. Yeah, it's really awesome to hear the download ship. It's a, I think it's a combination of having a already well-built kind of fan base in Fedora. Fedora just has a really awesome community and also DLN, kind of the same deal. We matched two awesome communities together and got a lot of downloads. Yeah, and it worked out quite well because I was really happy to see when the podcast was being refreshed. I was so curious about what was gonna happen. And then when I saw that you were being involved in it, I instantly was like, okay, well, let's make sure it's the best it can be because like, as I said in the talk, that your hustle was so impressive. Like, let's push just all the way. And that's why we wanted to do the, that's why we wanted to be a part of the Fedora podcast in some way. And now obviously I couldn't host it because I already have three shows, but it was, it is like, yeah, so sad. It is great that you're, you know, there's so much progress already. And the combination of both communities is definitely beneficial there. And we're excited on the deal inside to help grow the podcast even more. Also, I'm a Fedora user too. So that kind of works out. Yes. We may have both been convinced by the same person to switch to Fedora or tricked maybe, tricked into used Fedora, I don't know. It depends on your perspective, but yes, we were both persuaded. Persuaded. Okay, that works. The next question is, what platform do you use for doing the podcast? That is a very complicated question. What, what, what platform, like the platform we record on, the platform we edit on, the platform we hosted on, could you clarify that a little bit? I'd be happy to answer it though. There are a lot of different platforms. Yeah. And there's all, and all of those things are important and they're all separate platforms. Okay, the next question is, if you have Ifa on the show, will it just be a long string of bleeps? That's a good question. It might have to be, it's possible. We also will like, maybe just make her say everything three times until she says it in a family friendly way. We wanna keep this podcast family friendly. So maybe she won't, maybe she won't be able to be on the show. I don't know. It's not looking good. The next question is, where is this podcast? So our website is podcast.fodoraproject.org, which it's on like, it's on Apple podcast, it's on Google podcast, it's on Stitcher, it's on all the podcast apps. That's, I think that's what you're asking. So I hope I answered that well. The platform to record and edit and interview on. So we do our recordings on Jitsi. We use the OpenSUSA Jitsi server because Fedora doesn't have one yet. I promise once Fedora has a Jitsi server, we're gonna switch to that one. But right now, we wanna use Jitsi because open source and OpenSUSA has the best Jitsi server. Editing, we edit in, well, I edit in Audacity because that's all I know. I'd love to learn something more advanced like our door, but for now we're sticking with Audacity. I am kind of feeling the limits of what a basic editor like Audacity can do, but for now that works, especially with just an interview show. Recordings is complicated. I usually run like two recordings at the same time. I record myself once in Audacity, just because I trust it the most. And then there's this app called PulseCaster that Paul Friel, a previous Fedora podcast leader, made actually for the original Fedora podcast that essentially takes Pulse Audio, somebody needs to put it in a pipe wire and creates two recording streams, one for your microphone, one for your output device, and it records the call and you. So I have two recordings of myself, one is a backup and then one recording of the interviewee or whoever else is on the call. And then most of the time I ask the interviewee if they feel comfortable recording themselves, which they usually do because we're in Fedora, most people here are fairly technical. So we have that on their end. And then Edward of course records himself on Audacity or whatever. And what hardware do you utilize? Microphone, computer, and what OS are you running right now? So I have a fairly entry level as good microphones go microphone. This is called the Samsung Q2U, it was recommended to me by Michael and it's like $100, it's a stage mic, but it's really good and I really like it. You can get it pretty cheap. Depending on the time of the year, whatever their sales for that mic, you can get as low as 50 bucks sometimes. It's a very good microphone for its cost. So it's basically the go-to starter mic in my opinion because it is a very high quality mic but the price doesn't push it into the realm of ridiculous. Like my setup is a little bit more but I started a while back. Yeah, he started with an even lower quality mic. I started with worse. Upgraded to a really high quality mic which is his the road pod mic. Edward uses a microphone that's extremely similar to this, slightly more expensive. It's called the Audio Technica, something or other. I don't actually know but it's basically just this mic from another company. Hardware wise, I'm not high-end enough to have any like editing hardware. I just have my mouse and my laptop and this laptop is a Tuxedo or a 15 which is just kind of a basic laptop. It doesn't do anything extremely special. And OS, I'm running Fedora, of course, Fedora KDE spin right now. Same, also Fedora KDE. Yay. I think we answered all the questions. Yeah, those were some good questions. Well, it's technically my talk, so it's a good thing. Oh yeah, I'm just saying it makes it easy for me. I like not having to be the person who's the runner of the show. It's really nice. Yes, Matthew, soon for Jitsie. As soon as Red Hat buys that matrix server. Come on. Looking forward to meet that FedoraProject.org slash bar. Yeah, that's a good thing. I want that. Yeah, we already have a Fedora podcast planning room which is just for planning out the Fedora podcast and sharing anything that's like a spoiler if we want to not spoil everyone in the main Fedora podcast chat about what's coming up soon. Which we do use, we do actually do a fair amount of planning in the main room. We just like to keep spoilers out of there. And whenever we get our own matrix server, we'll transfer the room over and then have a Jitsie room built into the planning room. So we can just go straight from the text chat to the video chat and record.  It's not displaying anymore. But we do have an interesting question. It works on my end. Yeah, I don't know what to say. But it could be just me. There is an interesting question in the Q&A says, how do you approach prepping for and executing on a podcast episode? That is a very big question right there. It is. So the planning and executing workflow, I would say goes something like this. So the way we do podcasts most of the time is kind of unlike a lot of podcasts where they just like get together, intro, go, interview, go, whatever else, go, outro, go. For instance, like Michael's shows go that way. But the federal podcast, what we tend to do is we pick a main topic that the episode is and that's not episode based. That's topic based. So for instance, the latest episode with the i3 spin, we were like, well, we wanna interview the i3 spin. They're doing cool work. They're brand new. Let's do this. So we reached out to them, picked a date, picked a time. We got on a Zoom, or a Jitsie call and then recorded that. And beforehand, we had written show notes. We've got a HackMD team that we read all our show notes on and we kind of draft the show notes in the Pagger ticket and then copy them over into HackMD for more intensive editing. Then we just go through those show notes and chat with the team about them. After we're done with that, we take those recordings and I edit them just for the interview to get that sounding good. Then we wait till when we think we want to release that. So how the i3 spin one went was we were like, well, we've got nothing else lined up for this week and the i3 spin episode is really good. Let's go ahead and do that. So we figure out what we're gonna be talking about. In this case, it was just i3. And then I record the intro and outro. Sometimes it's me, sometimes it's Edward. That episode, I was gonna do it. So I did that. I recorded a little bit of news about Nest. I spliced that all together, edited it and then put it on the queue to release. Wrote the show notes. So that's roughly the workflow of making an episode. Michael, I cannot hear you. Oh, I must have muted just then. That was really interesting because I, the way you described it is really cool because I especially like the Pagger system that's being utilized to being able to have great people see it as it's starting and the different pieces together and the different groups and interviews that you're doing. So when I first saw that, it made me really excited to participate because there's so many things you can see as it's going that I even watched the Fedora podcast project on Pagger to see what's all happening. And if you wanna participate in the show, people, you should just go to the Pagger, sign up. And if you don't have an account, of course you probably already do, but if you don't sign up and start contributing there because it's a lot of interesting stuff, even just saying how it's all put together is really cool. Yeah, one thing that we did with this podcast that's really unusual in the podcasting world is we made an open source podcast in the sense that, well, the source itself isn't actually open because we keep our interviews and all that private just to not give anyone spoilers. In the end, they're all released and so everyone can see them. But then the issues and everything are all out in the public. The plans are all out in the public. Ideas all out in the public. Like what Michael just said, he kept an eye on it through the Pagger. That is exactly how everyone else can. Our network partner keeps an eye on what we're doing through the same way everyone else can. So it's a very open show. That's an interesting way to put it. I was just, I meant that I'm interested in seeing what's happening, not necessarily that I'm keeping an eye on it from the network side. Okay, maybe an eye on it is about like you, the way that we communicate with you about what we're doing as someone like who we work with is the same way as a random person is. Oh yeah, for sure. We keep everything very open. Yeah, I like the transparent approach. It's really interesting. Matthew, thanks for the offer about more hardware but it's a big leap to go from my laptop on my mouse to like anything bigger. So unless you wanna dump $200 on me and get me a really good audio setup, I think I'm good for now. What video editing software do we use? We do not edit in videos right now but when I do edit video for Fedora, like I did a sponsor talk for Academy 2021 that was edited in KIN Live. KIN Live is awesome. Maybe we could do video in the Fedora podcast someday but audio podcasts are a million times easier than video podcasts. Yes, very true. I do two podcasts that have video elements. I would not suggest doing video elements when you get started with a podcast because you're basically adding a lot more work because a lot of people don't think about the fact that when you're doing video editing, you are also doing audio editing too. So you have to do all the post processing on the audio that you were gonna do anyway. So it's not just like it's a different component, it's double the work minimum. Double minimum and also audio is like a bit of work for the, is some work for my computer to do because it has to go through all the audio, apply all the effects I wanna do. And then with video, it's like the process or the intensity of editing audio times three on my CPU. So my fans are just going full speed the whole time. It takes four times as long to render. Yeah, it's just not ready to do video yet. Someday though. Someday maybe. I do not need $100 yet. It's not that level yet. I've only released six episodes. Open process. I like that open process podcast. Yeah, so. One million dollars. Yeah, thank you guys for all coming. This was a fun talk to give. It's actually my second talk ever. So if I didn't do great, I'm sorry, but I tried. I think you did great. Especially for your second try. Also, Michael, I just checked. I did give you the footer podcast contributor badge. Yes. I'm glad. I didn't even check, so I'm glad you did. I was going through after the thing. So you beat me to it. I like it. I have to make sure I'm not slipping on my badge giving.


And like, I'll give example with people I have addicted personality. I quit drinking alcohol before it's in vogue now like I quit 910 10 years ago, I think now like I don't drink a sip of alcohol. Whoa, nothing.  You smoke used to a long time ago.  I got time. So I try to quit forever. Like I mean cigarettes or you mean weed? Never got to weed. I didn't like it. It's not good for my personality. Maybe slow. I'm like very hyperactive. Okay, cocaine.  I used to sniff cocaine and eat together. That was my favorite drug. Yeah, I would call it Tony Smurf. And yeah, yeah, yeah. So I try to quit like six, seven times cigarettes and I was a pretty big smoker like I party four days a week. I drank in the club. I was a club hopping nonstop bottle service cocaine, ecstasy and like a pack and a half or two packs of no problem like binge. Okay, nothing worked. What worked believe it or not is I was having a basketball game with a bunch of younger and I think I was like, I think I quit when I was like 19. Yeah, something like that.  I like I wasn't conditioned whatsoever. And I'm like my ego got destroyed.   Yeah, bro, I got mad.  And so I quit then and there but I was quite aware of my triggers and made me smoke coffee cigarettes. It's like yeah, they had chemical engineers design those two things to go together. Seriously. And so I alcohol here. Yeah, exactly. Wow, there man I quit I I pause I pause drinking alcohol and pause drinking coffee for a year. At that point. Wow. It didn't go to a club didn't go to a bar anyone to smoke around me I just left like I couldn't be in the environment and this circles back to your genetics is like your environment has to be conducive to your success. So if you're depressed and you're in a environment that is not conducive to your success like you have a partner that's an enabler or you're working in a work environment that's putting extreme social pressures on some form of pressure.  No, you're right and it's interesting. I tried to this was years ago tried to go to a depression support group. This was back in like 2010 and it wasn't pure support there's like a depression support group with anyone who is going through a hard time and dealing with depression you're all in a circle just think of what you've seen in the movies that kind of thing like a set up and that made me feel so much worse because everyone would just you just go around in the circle talking about the problems in your life. If you're depressed the worst thing you can do is to hang out with someone else who's depressed seriously we think it's good because all we can connect with someone and they'll understand and they're feeling what I'm feeling but that's not going to get you in it might make you feel heard for a second but it's not conducive to actually getting you to rise above it right you need to hang out with people who have maybe been through it and they're on the mend or they're on the other side or people who cheese maybe people who don't even understand depression and maybe won't take it too seriously they just want to get through the day today and how fun and not really look too far into it. The environment who you hang out with is massive. So I went to one of those support groups and never looked back it did not help at all it didn't help. So you mentioned CBT like when did you get into that? That was when I went to therapy for 2009 and now it's like kind of the go to with looking looking at how you think and we don't it's like metacognition. We have to think about what you're thinking about and I've never really done that and analyze thoughts and there's a few different approaches like again you can think of it black and white when some people really like oh you can have the meditative and Buddhist approach where you let thoughts come and go and be at an observer and don't judge and absolutely there's a time and a place and that actually helps with CBT but sometimes you have to actually pick apart a thought or pick a thought apart and and really see where it comes from. Where's it going? What else does it lead to? Is that thought coming from a past experience? Okay, let's go into that past experience. Look at the evidence and now look at the thought again and to do that through CBT is to really I think it actually helps you realize at the end that they are only thoughts and a thought isn't necessarily you and you can look at it and you can kind of move on when anxious about the future you can I just literally think the the future is just a thought the future doesn't necessarily exist. It exists in our in our minds and in thoughts and CBT had helped me realize that there's a time and a place to pick apart a thought and then with mindfulness and me practicing meditation since 2009 there's also also a time and a place to just let them do what they do let them come let them go observe them for what they are and don't take them so seriously. So again I think as we talked about with diet there's a time and a place for having pharmaceuticals and a time and a place for naturopathy and to combine those two and figure out maybe one works better for you maybe the other works better same with with this these cognitive tools that I use it's like CBT sometimes picking apart and journaling the hell of something and analyzing and taking time towards one thought that works beautifully a lot of the time and then a lot of the time sometimes meditation sitting with a thought and just being like let it go let's see what else comes that's also powerful to it's a beautiful compromise and I hate how a lot of the time the Greeks were right with moderation is key I it just always seems to come back to that but in my life it's it's so true. Yes, there's a lot of good benefits with CBT and so people wondering that's cognitive behavioral therapy and meditate I think the problem with a lot of people with meditation is they think classical meditation where it's like. Yeah, yeah, yeah, do you practice meditation. Yeah, so I don't practice classical meditation so I'm a very kinesthetic person or do you do dynamic meditation like oh show stuff. No, no, no, no, that is a bio energetics. Oh, I want to I got deep into better. Okay, I'm okay. Okay, so that is another. That's another bio energetics is legit. That's what works man. That's what helped me with that's where depression depression to expression came from. Oh, really? Yeah, it was me physically using the body to release depression and I go in the woods where no one was and I do bio energetics and I scream and I would just it like demons would literally come out of my body. It felt like and I would shake out vibrate. I would I would drool. I would spit and as crazy as it sounds. It was a lot less crazy doing that than to than to keep dealing with depression and I've definitely been an advocate for that kind of meditation of using the body when you're anxious that I think for me the last thing I want to do is like sometimes just calm down and sit and breathe and say all there's like nervous energy and tension you got to get out. So I don't know. Can you can you relate to that? What I yeah for me and this goes back to knowing thyself. Everybody's different and so I tried for the longest time classical sit down meditation and for me has to be kinesthetic movement. So my former meditations every day I walk have a dog to so helps but every day I walk about 35 40 minutes I use noise cancellation headsets so no music know nothing just noise cancellation and I just let my brain go and I just walk and I walk and I walk and I walk and I walk when I used to live in a house in a townhouse I don't have a backyard but when I used to live in a house in the backyard I would do a lot of Qi Gong joint mobility. I used to compete professionally in sports so I got into deep into joint mobility and practice that form like energetic stuff in the morning grounded on nice grass and Qi Gong is that almost is that similar to Tai Chi kind of there's two Qi Gongs there's a medical Qi Gong and energetic Qi Gong so there's two types of camps of different Qi Gong but for me it's more or less the the act of moving is enough of a distraction from the mind and until you get into until you get into your body forces you to get into focus and then the movement of your body gets a point that you don't even realize that you're in flow like that's a whole point you want to get in a state of flow yeah and so it's also like your ambient environment like I can't sit down in my house like I don't like to be in my house I don't like I like to be outdoors