Hello, everyone. We're going to wait just a few more minutes to allow folks to join. Amy, we're up to 15 participants. Should we get started? I was going to wait a little bit. I was also trying to figure out who was signed in as TAG Observability. But given as they seem to have dropped, we can go ahead and rock and roll. All right. Let's go ahead and get started. Hello, everyone. It's June 6. Thank you for joining the TOC public meeting. As a reminder, we are all in compliance with the antitrust policy notice for this meeting. And if you're here, you've found where we're at. The meeting logistics are on the screen. They're also in the TOC repo. Next slide. We have several TOC members here today and we'll be doing some updates from the tags and then any additional questions for everyone towards the end of the call. So let's go ahead and get started with tags stored up. Projects applying to move the hoodles. Moving this one up to be a lecture that we get a chance to be able to cover all of these. Yep. Artifact hub is still an active review from Dave. Do you have any additional updates? I do not have any additional updates from before. I think we're still working through getting the due diligence together and ready to go. Awesome. Thanks. Thank you. I don't see that Erin is on the call. I know that she is still working on it. Cube flow is in public comment. Flat car is still an active review. Duffy, Nikita or Katie, do you have any updates? I think I'm sorry. We just have to, I think we have to sync and kind of move that thing forward again. Okay. Ricardo open your.  So I expect for the update from him. Yeah, so expect that one to be kicking off soon. Justin is still working with your PC on upcoming changes. Justin, do you happen to have an update? We have a meeting scheduled. I think I can't remember exactly. I mean, when is it? Yeah. Cryo, I believe goes to voting today. Is that correct, Amy? That is correct. We are public comment moving to a vote. Awesome. Kata is in public comments. Sillium is still with the license scanning team under licensing review. Falco, we're working on the project for some focus areas to continue to move them forward. And Istio is in voting, which I believe wraps up soon. Is that correct? We're real close. So I'll be sending out like what votes are currently open today. Okay. Awesome. TSC members, please keep an eye out on your email for open votes. All right. Let's get started. Great to see so much movement here. Now we can get text storage. All right. Sorry. Do you mind if I just ask one thing on that last slide? Go ahead, Craig. There's a quite a lot hidden in that last sentence there that says projects waiting for sponsors are on the meeting minutes doc. I did note that there were three or four projects that have been waiting now what seems like six months. I just wondered if there is any plan on having more visibility into allocation of sponsors or when those will move forward. So that in voting currently and when they complete the votes, then those sponsors are been available to be able to come take on new projects. Yes. Yeah, so I'll add on there. Craig, we do have the incubation and graduating projects black backlog on the TOC project boards. We're going in through those trying to identify projects that have been in the queue the longest between the two of them. We're actively working through things. All TOC members have been advised that as they are starting to wrap up and turn projects over to public comment, take a look in the backlog, which ones have been in there the longest, which ones align with background. If you have that luxury to be able to do that depending on what we have and then figure out which ones you're interested in taking on next. I've already talked to several TOC members who have got a few projects that they're they're looking to pick up as soon as we we kick some of these out. I will let everyone know that in order to ensure that TOC members are not over committed and being distributed too thin amongst all the projects. We're trying to enforce a to project cap on TOC members to try to distribute the work as as thoroughly as we can and try to get these things moving forward. So if you have any questions on a status, take a look at the project backlog boards. We're trying to keep them up to date. We apologize for any incorrect information that was on there in the past, but we're working through improving it. Thank you. Yep, not a problem. Alright, tag storage. Okay, hello everyone. So a few updates on some of the projects we've had quite a bit of activity on a number of different projects which are looking to join the CNCF and presenting. So I'll touch on those first cloud native PG had previously applied for sandbox and is going to be reapplying they are a an operator Kubernetes operator for Postgres that manages the entire lifecycle of databases within Kubernetes and also does things like replication and other failovers and high availability. So it's particularly interesting for moving safer workloads into the Kubernetes environment. Pelican is a very interesting project in that it is an exceptionally mature. caching subsystem similar to memcachity or redis for example, and used to be part of the code base at Twitter. Due to some of the things that have been going on there, the entire team has moved on and they've also open sourced their that code basis as a result and has some it has some particularly interesting cloud native applications. So they're looking to to consider joining a sandbox. Xline is also very innovative. They are deploying new consensus type protocol called CURP, which is designed to remove some of the latency that we have in things like the raft protocols, typically, and their idea is to have a strong consensus key value store, which also has an SED compatible API. So there are some interesting use cases for that there. And when we store is a local volume, local volume manager, PVC kind of products, which are projects which allows the migration of pvcs between between notes as well as as well as local storage management, which which again is kind of innovative because we haven't seen the sort of data movement aspect than any of the other projects like Karina, for example. Other than the projects. We've also got a bunch of work on going around some of the white papers that we're working on the white paper database patterns is has a lot of content has been completed and we're now in a review phase and sort of plugging a few of the, a few of the gaps. And that's that's actually what's taken the bulk of the bulk of the of the work so far. And we continue to have some upcoming presentations if anybody's interested to join the next couple of calls on projects for we have a presentation around sustainability and storage, which could, which could have some sort of wider interest and another presentation on Kayap, which is a backup project, as well as some other projects coming up. Some some project updates coming up like for proof you go. And then finally, we want just want to remind everybody I've sent an email to the to see mailing list that we're proposing. Rafaela Spatsoli to join as a co-chair for the tag Rafaela has been working with us for a number of years now and was previously a tech lead for the tag he's authored a number of papers and being a presenter with us at cube kind of a few times. And it's very, very highly recommended so please send your plus ones in. Yes, when did you send that because I missed that. About two hours ago. Oh, okay. All right. I haven't seen it. Okay. Okay. Wonderful. Wonderful. I will add that into the co-chair nomination, like the votes currently outstanding will treat that like a vote. Excellent. And Rafaela would be replacing Quinton who's he's sort of stepped out from the storage tag. Okay, does anyone have any questions for tag storage? Okay. I have one and then a request for the paper review that you have on database patterns. Did that go out on the to see mailing list to solicit more reviewers. It has not, but we can do that. Okay, I would recommend that just to get more visibility on the on the work that this group has done. And then the use case template for storage projects. Are you all looking to contribute that template as an optional template on the contribute.cncf.io for those projects? That was not something we actually discussed, but it's something we probably should consider. Actually, that's a good point. Okay. I don't have any other questions. Right. Next, tag security. Hello. So I'm pleased to announce that we have proposed a nomination for our next co-chair. This is replacing the long standing and long serving Brandon Lum, who's, who's just about finished with his term. That is currently on the TOC mailing list for feedback. Secondly, there is a proposal to spread out the chair terms via a nuance of originally how additional co-chairs were added. We are due to have a rather than a finish within the next month or so, which would mean two chairs rotating within very short succession. So this is a proposal to extend her term by another couple of months. So there's at least three months between those rotations and just ease the new chair into the role as supported by the tech leads who have done a wonderful job so far. We have some new publications. So thanks to all the Italian speakers who have done a sterling job of translating the cloud native white paper V2 into Italian. That is now finished and published as of four days ago. And secondarily, we have a proposal for a Chinese translation underway that is currently inviting contributors. And a number of security reviews on the way through. First of all, we have Pixie, which is EBPF flavored. People are interested to jump in there. We are looking for, again, additional security reviews in there. I think Justin Kappos will be leading that one for us. We also have flat car.  It is more than we would generally see with a specific cloud native application. However, we had an introductory meeting with the team and spoke about downscoping to very specifically the portions of the system, which are high risk where escalation of privilege might be more of a concern. And of course, on the understanding that it is a mature and well used project. So a little bit out of scope for a little bit beyond the scope of what we normally do, but nevertheless, something we're willing to jump into. There is a proposal for a fuzzing handbook. So this is looking at some of the work, especially around the data logics fuzzing across the CNCF project portfolio. And we're looking probably to add this in to the supply chain security white paper, just as an additional piece. Again, looking forward to a presentation on that over the next few weeks. And finally, cube flow are coming through as well. I should add that we have been traditionally doing cadence of meetings. Initially, every week on US time zone, we then stood up the EMEA meeting. There has been some diffusion of contributors across those two time zones. So the goal of the tag is now to maintain that weekly cadence in North America on the North American time zone while also maintaining the two weekly cadence of the EMEA team, which has probably half to a third of the number of contributors. But as some people move around the world, they kind of switch between different projects. So trying hard to avoid split brain, making sure everything is well documented and we have rigorous meeting notes to mitigate that. Thanks, Andy. Anyone have questions for tag security? No, I just wanted to thank the tag security for picking up the security reviews for the projects because Pixie as you know has already presented in the tag of the ability and we've been working with closely with the team for, you know, getting them lined up and ready for review by the TOC for incubation status. So thank you, Andy for and to the tag community security community. Ricardo's got a second on that thanks for picking up flat car. Andy, while we have you a quick question, as I understand that you all are always in need of security reviewers to support and assist this because it is a volunteer driven activity, I assume that is still the case. And if so, is there any security review resources for individuals that may not have a security background but are interested in learning more and how they can assist tag security and reviewing these projects security posture. There are indeed and thank you for asking. We have security review guidelines. I will drop these into the chat now as well. I would also recommend sending out a message on the TOC mailing list with the open call for security reviewers and a link to what you just dropped in chat. Hopefully we can get some more community members interested in this space. Yes, I appreciate the nudge. There's one more thing in this space which we have considered. We tend to experience individuals being involved in contributing in their line of business interest, let's say. And we have wondered if we can open that up more broadly and ask people if they can contribute maybe to the proceeding or the following review once they have a feel for the way that we pursue the minutiae of how we undertake the thing. So, it's an open discussion attack security right now, but yes, we are very keen to bolster the roster of security individuals. In fact, Emily, thank you for calling that out because I just wanted to call out that the secure the open telemetry project, which I actively work on is, we just created a security work group, which is, you know, related to open telemetry and looking at security use cases for observability. And again, Andy, I think perhaps, you know, those two team groups can collaborate to support the tech security so I'll get the word out for sure. That would be fantastic. Thank you. Sure. Thanks, that's great. Next up, tagger in time. All right. I don't know where are the projects and presentations, you know, like, I think there's something went wrong with presentation. So, let me try to find another. Okay. When you get to it, that's fine. Actually, I can see it here. So I'm not sure why it's not anyway might not be rendering today. Yeah, no words. So, going into the project and presentation that we have, we have a couple of projects that in graduation in graduation process, and they are in public comment. And CRIO. Now the Q flow. It's still in initial in the review as well. We are working on that. And we reached out to another project which is a slim tool that tool kept. We didn't hear back from them yet. Hopefully they can present as soon. Moving to the workloads and the Kubernetes projects. So, Carmada is has already presented in the tag runtime, and they are waiting for a sponsor from the to see. And we had to sandbox projects that have been accepted which is kept her and the keep service tech. Here as well we are working to make sure they, you know, like they already covered all the information that the to see asked, asked them to provide. And yeah, we have in the next meeting, we have the Q clipper project which is a management system, Kubernetes management system, they will present on June 15. Moving to the activities. First thing we wanted to. We wanted to, you know, like discuss here or you know like letting you know that the session in keep calm EU was very productive and that co chairs have a lot of successful. We were talking and people were so interested on meeting them and the talking it to them during the session so the tag is planning to have another one for keep keep calm in a, and hopefully we can have more in the operating sessions as well. We will try to plan for this and we will let you know once we have a draft plan. Another two working groups, still in progress, which are the ml ops and working group. We didn't have lots of, you know, like progress in this yet. Because we have like the weather working group, we're working on the weather working group, hopefully the charter the drafted charter is almost ready so we will send it for to see review, hopefully this week. We already nominated the co chairs and team leaders based on people interest and, of course, we took lots of other other other factors into our considerations and we had a meeting already. Like time and date, and hopefully once we have the to see review and everything is good, we can start to kick off the first meeting for wasn't working group. And yeah, it was, it was so, you know, like, so happy to see it like the wasm con is the thing now and it will happen soon so it, it think up with the working group hopefully we can do more work together. Moving back again to the patch system initiative. The team had the pretty consistent chunk of work, and they are making a good progress to to reach to the landscape phase which, which is pretty excited. And therefore the other working group the IOT and cod, we didn't have much updates on these working group hopefully we can have something to share with you in the future. That's fantastic you all have been very busy. And yeah, for a couple of months I don't know what's happening but you know like lots of projects lots of events, which is happy thing. Any questions for tag runtime. All right, I certainly don't have any you all are doing great work. Very busy. Next. And now it's loaded tag observability. Right. Hi everyone. I wanted to kind of run through some of the really cool stuff that we have been doing in the tag observability and the first and foremost. Thank you to to see for proving our request for work group on the query language standard work that you know different groups are interested in Netflix eBay as well as Apple. We have been looking at some of the use cases where convergence of multiple languages in the industry for observability are leading to more discussion around how there could be a baseline, which is a standard set of again, just standard set of syntax right so based on that the query language query language work group has been set up. We will reuse the CNCF tag observability time on the day on the weeks when the tag meeting is not held. The tag meeting typically is on the first and third Tuesdays and the work group for query language discussions will be held on the second and fourth. We have already had the first discussion. A lot of folks attended very good representation both from end users as well as from different vendor teams that have been involved. That's very exciting because again this is an and I stated the word group goals on the right hand side as well as the non goals. Obviously we are not looking at defining a formal standard or implementations that's up to the. The project spin up based on that that's up to the projects to do what we want to focus in on in this web group is really looking at a variety of use cases, capturing you know what some of the end user pain points are, and the use cases which really require complex queries often for observability data and just looking at telemetry models and establishing and documenting that. We also plan to interview query language designers from different groups within the CNCF ecosystem as well as problem different vendors, and this and also survey, you know, multiple end user groups have been super interested in, first of all providing feedback and also hope to inform the diversity of observability use cases that exist right so again super exciting. This is something that will be ongoing. So, again, please get the word out if folks are interested, whether that is security use cases or. Yes, specific use cases or others again. This does intersect your feedbacks would be invaluable. Just wanted to call out a couple of projects on the observabilities side again thanks to the tech security for doing you know conducting starting the security review for pixie. We are also activating to see guidance on assignment of a sponsor for starting to review pixie for incubation. And the second project which is also in the wings that has just started is open cost which kind of falls under the observability domain, because of a lot of the metrics that are collected. So cost management and configuration management which is typically you know an overlapping area of its observability. Meetings and highlights we do have pretty good participation in the meetings that we have twice a week, twice a month I should say, and Matt did you want to go and deep dive into that we had a super cool. Yeah, thank you. I think over the last few years I've built up enough negative karma with talking too much, so I will try to be brief bright and gone. In this case, but yeah last in our last meeting the video has just been posted. I am right from coming all that came to talk about an MIT open source project called coin.io it is a streaming graph interpreter. I've mentioned this in the past and we finally got him to come. I highly recommend giving the talk a lot of giving the talk a watch. It's about 35 minutes are, and it starts with the theory of observability that goes back quite a bit deeper than an older than you might think beyond. We're getting kind of control theory and with its roots and philosophy, you know about how we observe the world around us and all that, but really the focus is on streaming graph interpreters which are in a nutshell something like spark, or something would sit between two streaming pipelines of events, and it, it gobbles up little events and makes much bigger events out the other side. There's a critical difference being that there are no timing windows, because rather than all of the events that need to be matched up as they come streaming in, being bounded by how much memory or storage you have on a machine, rather, it's a stateful durable graph database backing that buffer if you will. So streaming graph interpreters have a lot of applications I think in observability in particular cloud native observability to the high cardinality and the nature of Kubernetes observability so the talk ends with a demo of using coin to understand what's happening in a cluster. So, that's that. Cool. And that thank you for diving deep in that again for those of you who are interested in streaming graphs. This is super cool talk. I just wanted to call out attention to a long term pending request from the open telemetry project again trying to figure out you know what is the best process for reaching out to the CNCF legal team as well as the to see for reviews of different licensing requests or community requests that come up right and and we did file a service desk ticket from open telemetry a while back, and it's been a few months. We have not heard back on the ticket from the legal team so maybe Amy you can guide us in terms of what the process is there. So there's a couple different things going around. I think for licensing request it's best to be able to use the foundation repo, but we can take this one offline. Okay, a lot of different pieces running around in here. Okay, thanks Amy. Awesome. And that's all we had for the update. Thanks. Any questions for tag observability. Okay. Next. Tag environmental sustainability. Hello. So we organized actually a wire back I think a month ago, a getting started meeting, which was quite nice with a couple of new folks, I think around 10 around 10 new faces. And we will work on those slides over time and then have again getting started meetings after each major conference so every time we expect a lot of new contributors or new folks are interesting in the tag. We will organize a getting started meeting. We published a blog post. I think two weeks ago. It should be published today. Also on the CNCF blog. So we have it on our website already. And it should also be published today or tomorrow. So it's about cube corn and cloud native at cube corn, basically, and we had a couple of sections in the blog post where we had interview style questions and folks from the tag answer those questions. So I think this was a very nice idea or or thing to get folks from the tag involved in a blog post. They can quickly fill out a form answer those questions and they appear in the blog post. And we also organized or invited the author of the scarf under project. The scarf under is a similar tool or project as Kepler but it has not this. It's not bound to communities as Kepler is it's it is just like a resource which you can deploy anywhere, but it's governed under different organizations or different foundation. So this was a very good demo for us to know a little bit more about the tool itself, but also to get a connection to to the author and also to to the other foundation potentially. We published a couple of months ago and we've talked about it and the cloud native sustainability landscape document. And it has been translated to Korean, which is very nice. So we see there's some some eyes on the document and with with time potentially we will also include more different languages but this is like on like if if a contributor steps up and has interest and we have to support and we're happy to include more languages. Also, and we have been talking in the tag about this for quite some time because at the moment a lot of our efforts are focused around communication and and so on. So we have been starting and creating an issue about the working group around communication, which I think is is a very good step. And the issue is, I think has a lot of thumbs up already but it's still under discussion, I think. So we will, I think, wrap this up soon soonish. There's also been an effort to maybe organize a hackathon at the next QCon. This is that by by max we organized last week a meeting with some folks who are interested in this effort to discuss maybe different projects which we can which which are fit for a hackathon. So I think this is very interesting. There's also another effort about organizing a cloud native week of cloud native sustainability. The idea is that we use the community groups. So we have in the CNCF all those chapters, they organize meetups. And we have this this network and the idea is that we leverage this network and that we organize in a particular week the second week of October, all around the globe cloud native meetups around the topic of sustainability. And we already have over 20 meetups interested or organizers interested so it looks to be quite quite of an interesting event. We will have in the next weeks and months, some session around organization so we can support those local meetups in the best best way we can. So very excited about that. We have also invited the green software foundation. This is not on the slide here but I updated. I updated, I think the slides a little bit late, but we have invited the green software foundation to join our next call tomorrow, which I think is very interesting. There are obviously a lot of expertise as well in the sustainability space. So having like a stronger bound to them, I think makes sense. We also were thinking about maybe having like a role like an ambassador role that somebody from the tag is joining the green software foundation calls and giving us an update. So we are kind of have like a better loop or better understanding what's going on in their software foundation and their foundation. But maybe this is like something for the future right now. Not sure if somebody has time to do that. Also, we have been working on refining governance and guidelines. We pushed a new process around reviewing blog posts. This has been a problem a couple of months ago when we first had a blog post submission and we noticed that we are missing guidelines how to review it and it was a little bit messy. And now I think we have a very interesting process. Maybe something we can also document in the best practices effort. There's like another issue open under the TSE. So maybe this could be interesting that you and the last two things we have been also talking about tag roles and like a leadership ladder because some tag members are interesting in moving moving up roles and have different leadership roles. And we've been also talking about the host playbook. So how to organize a meeting and so on. Awesome. Thanks so much Leo. For those of you that are interested in learning more about that hackathon definitely check out the issue link there was a lot of great information and discussion on there. I think the folks in tag observability might be interested in checking that out. So, Leo, thank you so much. Any questions for tag environmental sustainability before we move on. Okay, next. Tag contributor strategy. Hello everyone. We've made really good progress. Dave Sudia in particular has made really good progress on revitalizing the maintainer circle so this has been exciting to see so we held one with with Nate and Lee just a little over a week ago. And we have one coming up on community management with Paris Pittman on the 28th. So we'll be announcing that one soon if you want to hold it on your calendar that would be great. We also have some really interesting things coming out of the mentoring working group that are pretty exciting so Catherine Paganini has been working with a university near Washington DC, which is a university Gallaudet Gallaudet. I'm not sure how to say it. Thank you. So it's, it's a university for for the deaf and hard of hearing and so she's working with them and meeting with a professor to, to look at how we can make our communities more accessible to contributors in the space. So any community members who are deaf, hard of hearing or fluent in American Sign Language, and who are maybe interested in collaborating with us on this effort, have them reach out to us at tag contributor strategy we'd love, love to hear them and their experiences and get more people involved in this, this new initiative. So making really good progress on in that the work that Jay Tolima is doing with the Maori in New Zealand, and some some work with government initiatives to to help them move into careers and the cloud native space. So that's part of kind of a national national program to get more, more native Maori people into IT careers, and in particular in our case the CNCF. So that also is really, really exciting to see on the governance side we've got some governance reviews in progress so we're doing governance reviews for Istio and telepresence right now. So in the last group we updated our slides a little late. So if you go back to the slides later, you can see that we've added a few things to the general section in particular we have new tech leads. So we have Ali Ok and Rian Kleinhans who are stepping in to fill Carolyn's very big shoes after we we lost her. So they have been stepping up and doing a lot of really great work within within the tag. So I wanted to recognize that by moving them into tech lead positions. In particular Ali has been doing a ton of work on the contribute.cncf.io website, and in particular, upgrading some hugo versions and working on how to migrate some things that were unfortunately running out of Carolyn's GitHub accounts and so we're using the process of working to sort that out and working with some folks at the CNCF. Rian has been taking the lead and working on our tag contributor strategy roadmap so that we have a better feel for what we're working on what's coming next and how people can get involved. So there's also a lot of great work happening there. And then our friendly monthly reminder that any CNCF project is welcome to come and talk to us if you want some help with governance or building your contributor strategy growing your contributors. So feel free to drop into any of our meetings slack channels mailing lists, you know if your projects need some help. Any questions for the tag. John, I think I had a question about getting the contributor tag contributor strategy, you know team, more involved in the projects, the opposite way that is can we invite you for example open telemetry and, you know, is a very large project. You are, you know, folks from the tag contributor strategy to come and speak to the to the GC and the TC, for example, right because we have a regular meetings but typically what I've noticed is that most projects don't go to the tag contributor strategy. It's kind of isolated and separated out. Yeah, maybe you know having more presentations into the projects themselves might be, you know, useful to get more books involved. We have a whole community team that you know and a group that works on the project itself. And there's a lot of activity that comes out of that community group but they could benefit from you know actually working with the contributor strategy group. Yeah, we'd certainly be open to that I would say reach out to us on on our slack channel or the mailing list with when the meetings are and maybe some some idea of some of the challenges you're facing that you'd like for us to talk about. And then we'll we'll see if we can find somebody who can who can come into your meetings as well. Awesome. Awesome. Thank you. And you know projects that are having particular issues or want to review on something or maybe they're updating their governance and what some advice are also always welcome to just file issues and tag contributor strategy and we can deal with those asynchronously so you don't, you don't have to pop into a meeting if you if you've got a question we can, we can deal with some of those via via issues as well. Okay, that that makes sense. I mean, again, all good. It's just more that you know there are often a lot of discussions that the community repos for example on hotel are very active. Lots of different discussions happening there but they don't, you know really they stay centered in the in on the project itself right and books typically don't intersect. So I'd love to see more collaboration there. Yeah, that's a good idea. Thanks. No, totally. Thank you. Any other questions for tag contributor strategy. Okay, I have a recommendation for everyone if you're a tag chair or a technical lead or a maintainer of a project you're interested in becoming a maintainer for a project at some point in the future highly recommend going to that community management session with Paris Pittman keep an eye out from tag contributor strategy for information and details on that even though it may not be immediately relevant to something you're working on. There are always good sessions to understand what is going on in the movie and the rest of the community some of the community concerns that different maintainers are encountering. So highly recommend that. Right. Next. And there's a maintainer circle slack channel, which is where all the announcements get made so if you're not already on that that's a great way to get notified when the meeting gets scheduled. Definitely. Thanks, Don. All right, next up. App delivery. Yes, ma'am. Here I am. So, I'll just walk through this. We have opened an issue for chair elections. I'm not a chair right now but I nominated myself. I'm kind of the chair right now. So I'm definitely looking for more contributors. I'm a little concerned that I'm the only one that's nominated myself there I know it's a big domain. Maybe some of the leaders from some of the related groups want to like a native or things like that month propose themselves. So yeah, check that out. We do have a project presentation with litmus chaos coming up. We have a meeting frameworks currently fall under our purview. We had a discussion with CD events from CDF a few weeks ago and I just wanted to make sure you all saw that. We tried to identify ways we could support CDF and CD events continuous delivery foundation. I don't know. And CD events is a major project from them. I think that's a couple of things. I think they want one of the things they asked was about patterns for integrating events and reacting to them and I kind of said I are serverless working group which I always have my eye on most about cloud events. Ask them to talk with them some to continue me through the list are we G so we G is just what I call working groups artifacts. So we've had some productive couple meetings after our you know initial back and forth asynchronously. The charter is is ready for review I opened the elite well one of the leaders opened up PR in the tag repo and I opened the thing that talks today so take a look at that see what you think. And there's a lot of different examples of forming we G so. And there were a lot of opinions in the meetings to so I'm sure there will be more in the PR so comment there if you want to change or need more info. We did want I'll bring up this ask because I'm probably going to open a service desk ticket for it. We probably need to get repo. I think media types for artifact schemas. So, I'll probably open a service desk ticket for that. So, rather than, it'll be better than the folks going and just creating a GitHub word is the feedback. Because if I if I see it right, this is asking for being able to help gather OCI pieces as well. Media types. Yeah, so it applies. I'm worried we're going to be crossing streams here and I want to be more clear about it but we can, we can take it offline. Yeah, we've been discussed OCI has been involved in these discussions and some of the OCI folks are in the meetings, and we actually put in the charter explicitly how we intend to relate to OCI. They're pretty supportive of it. It's, you know, the work we're doing is bottoms up effort it's not to set a spec it's more to gather. The fact is that people don't have the motivation to register all these media types of IANA. So we're trying to bottoms up gather them together find conventions and eventually it might affect it might affect OCI artifacts to O or OCI image spec even to over some discussions within OCI. Cool. It's a pretty cool way to partner with them because they're mostly on the spec side and we're mostly on the software side. Okay, continuing down the list we G platforms. Yes or tell us it's part of or tell us but it's the same folks I mean and porous is interested in content addressable discoverability for all things but I'm encouraging them to focus only on software artifacts. That's actually how OCI works internally. It's just content addressable so. Yeah, yeah there's the there's always the CDF and CNCF and that kind of stuff OCI. Let me move on to the next one. We do platforms so here is a lot of stuff in development because I need to push it along a little bit more. Some of our folks are in depth on that we want to push it forward maybe have it ready by Chicago. Korean translation I think the same person that did the environmental sustainability to ours but we haven't quite figured out how to get it merged in there yet if somebody wants to. It's really almost done it just it's the Hugo figuring out how to negotiate them. The platform survey is live. We haven't got a ton of responses and to be honest we haven't really promoted it. Yeah, I mean it's just we need some help if folks want to help promote it's been on my backlog to write a blog post about it and explain what we're doing. But I haven't done that yet newsletter marketing same thing actually this is really good I just talked with some of the folks that are interested in this and we do have a few people that want to. In a vendor neutral way share you know information about application development and delivery on Kubernetes. And so they're pursuing ways to share, you know the stuff that comes to our tag and some of the projects that we're working on working on like potato head. We want to share this last bit which is within from the platforms group which is, you know, probably accomplished a lot of the core of what it wanted to do. But we want to continue somehow pursuing synergy standards conventions reduction of complexity for platform API's, you know, the ways that you actually call the platform for portals where there is some confusion in the industry and some of the examples are meant to do things like backstage, and secrets bindings management which comes up frickin every conversation I have. But it's, you know, there's not that much money in it, frankly, I think in solving the problem it's hard to get everyone together on there's about 20 different ways so that's definitely been an hour. You know, we're trying to find ways to tackle other open issues so you're passionate about it. You're passionate people to, to simplify these domains. Last thing cube con Chicago everyone else mentioned it so I'll mention ours to we've run, you know project meetings for the tag at the past couple cube cons and they were really good for facilitating learning about ideas coming from each project. You know, some cross validation collaboration. I noticed that the pre day events are proliferating. We seem to be as twice as many in Amsterdam is Detroit, maybe there were much more before the pandemic I'm not really sure. But where I was thinking about a lot of those are app delivery projects, and so I was thinking about trying to coordinate that a bit most of them are only an hour or something anyway. So that we can all attend each other's and learn from each other's. So maybe that will transition into that. But with with folks so it's five months but it's it comes up faster than you expect as five months from today. I think Josh that's very helpful because again, I have you know we've had the same issue where their project meetings on the pre day at coupon and typically they're all at the same time. So, you end up not attending the office. Yeah, and in fact, you know I was kind of thinking because I don't know if you all have heard but there's a proposal for an app developer day on that day, and I was thinking about how that fits with the project meetings does that negate the need for them. But I've actually been thinking like that event is towards end users to the, you know the people that come in and want to learn, whereas this these project meetings. I don't know if end users want to come that probably indicates that they're pretty powerful and user anyway, but it's more oriented towards the project maintainers and the leaders to introduce them to each other. Yep. I mean, I think both and both are valuable. We're having them on the same day. We have the same issue with observability also because we have the observability day on the same day as the project meetings and everything else so it's typically difficult to pick. So, at knowing that that's difficult and having done the schedule a few times for cube con. If you both could take a few moments and type something up and paste it in either the TOC channel or the tag chairs channel concerning like scheduling conflicts associated with cube con and we'll make sure that that is sent over to the events team and the co chairs for when they're aware and mindful of it when they're building out the schedule. Sure. Emily, you can definitely Josh and I can coordinate for sure. That would be fantastic. And just file an issue on TOC repo. I just posted in the Slack channel. I'll direct them to it. Awesome. Thank you. Any other questions for tag app delivery. Okay. Any other questions we've got three minutes. Okay. I appreciate everyone's attendance today. I look forward to seeing you all next month with some more awesome updates. Please have a safe happy and healthy week everyone. Good to see you all we do sandbox review next week. So new sandbox projects. Cool. Awesome. We'll publish it. We'll publish it after it's it's done and votes open. So, hooray. Thanks. Thanks. Thanks. Thank you. Thank you. Bye.


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This session, we're happy to introduce a terrific couple of speakers with a session called Open Sim Adventures for Middle School Age Children. Our speakers today, excuse me, are Mary Howard and Andrew Wheelock. Mary's a sixth grade teacher at Grand Isles Veronica Connor Middle School in New York and Andrew is the technology coordinator for the Western New York area. Welcome all. Let's begin the session. Hi everyone. I want to just quickly say some quick thank yous to Lear Lobo who was really great at making sure we were keeping on track with this great conference. So thanks Lear. Let me just begin by saying Mary and I have been working at this for probably five, six, seven years. It seems to add up pretty quickly. So I'm going to just introduce where the project's been and Mary really has been taking off with so much of what we've been doing and is really powering things into the future and beyond. So to introduce the project, we started with the Open Sim project called the Islands of Enlightenment. Let me see if I can advance my slide here. And these projects were a grant funded project through New York State Department of Education. And basically that got us started with the server and all of the start-up money for professional development for teachers. And the first project that we did, hard time advancing my slide here, so I'm going to maybe go backwards first. And the first project was the Anne Frank project or the Understanding the Holocaust project. And that was essentially, we recreated the streets of Amsterdam in 1944, there we go. And the idea was to kind of have kids read the book, The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank, and then have a virtual world experience and Open Sim to learn about not only the Holocaust, but to learn about Anne Frank and have a visual experience to go with the powerful book. And what we found was kids really got a lot of out of it, because they got to make presentations, they got to make museum exhibits, and they also had to do a lot of writing about the Holocaust. So that was the first project that we rolled out for students. The second project was called The Air of the King, and this is where Mary came into my mad little world here and started really being not only a digital creator, but I'd like to call Mary the curriculum whisperer, because she is a really talented curriculum writer and has a lot of creative ideas, as you'll see, when I turn the mic over to her. But the second year was The Air of the King project, which was a medieval virtual world, and we gamified it, and we really made a lot of, we kind of created a medieval world for kids to walk through, and as they leveled up, they got to go into the castle, and by the time they got to the castle, then there was kind of an Arthurian legend that took place, and students were able to try and solve the mystery of who was the rightful air of the king. So that was really, really a great passion project for us, and the kids were just amazing and had a lot of good time with that. The third year we have a local Frank Lloyd Wright Darwin creation called the Darwin Martin House, and we had the students, you know, as probably all of you know who work with students, they're such a passion for building, that the students just dug right into building, and so we contacted our local Frank Lloyd Wright Museum, the Darwin Martin House, and they were a really great partner, and we had the kids create virtual kind of architecture, and again we found just, it was amazing that the kids understood the principles of architecture, not only just of Frank Lloyd Wright, but just general principles and then made their own designs, and again, Mary was a really big part of this project as well as a lot of other teachers, but Mary really did a lot, we toured the house and then the kids really took it to the next level and created. And then just a couple of other sidebar projects that we did with some other local teachers, Sheila Cannon, who has since retired sadly, but we did our digital art museum project. So kids not only created art out of world and brought it in world, but they also create their own digital project, so that was one of the other projects we did, and that's kind of an avenue that I want to explore in the future. And then we also had, and this is one of my favorite days, is I had some teachers that have been, I had one teacher who was kind of a Civil War reenactor in the real world, and I put him together with some awesome history teachers that have been doing a lot of open sim building. You can see their names there, and we spent the day just recreating a Civil War battlefield, including a medical tent, and it was just a really awesome experience to bring teachers together and let them create, not only creating the content, the historical content, but then having them create the history along with that. And that really kind of were just some of the things that we've involved in this, and I really want to kind of turn it over to Mary, because you know, Mary is such an inspirational teacher to work with, because she took what we had and then really just powered it beyond it, and Mary's not the only one, but Mary certainly has been just a leading force in education, not just in virtual worlds, but other technologies, and now she's starting to blend those in. So with that, I'm going to turn the mic over to Mary and let her really tell you the cool stuff that she's been carrying on with. Thank you. That was quite a buildup. It's hard to sit quietly for such a long period of time. I'm a teacher and you're used to talking all the time, so just to back up a little bit and give some background on myself, I am a sixth grade teacher, and for about 15 years I taught social studies along with ELA, and then I've just recently switched to teaching ELA in science, but still in the sixth grade. And so the title of our session is Open Sim Adventures for Middle School, and a lot of what Spiff just shared really is the genesis and kind of the evolution of what we've been able to do with Open Sim over the years, and it's really allowed me to buy into the program and truly see the value of using Open Sim for instruction and what it can do for my students. And it's quite a powerful thing, and I know I'm probably speaking to a crowd of people that are drinking from the same Kool-Aid, and yet, you know, I have example of after example of things that have changed students' perception of education and instruction, and that, you know, gosh, school can actually be fun and engaging, and I really credit my experiences with using Open Simulator and my collaboration with Spiff as the reason a lot of that was able to happen. So the projects that Spiff shared, you know, again, over the course of the past five years have been wonderful, and then the slide you see up here was just sort of another one where I took what I do already in the classroom. I do a lot of scavenger hunts. I do a lot of breakout activities, escape rooms, you know, really anything to keep students engaged. And so I wanted to try kind of an amalgamation of escape room principles and virtual environments, and that's where this Westing came project came from. And essentially, and I don't know Spiff, we can kind of slowly go through the slides. The kids read the book, The Westing Game by Alan Raskin, and they were on providing a mansion. So you can see the picture here is the mansion. And in this mansion, we built them a scavenger hunt. So after they finished the novel, I wanted to have them evaluate every single character in the book to sort of prepare and what the characteristics of the characters were. So we can go to the next slide here, Spiff. This was the kind of a what they had to do is they had to search for these dollar bills. So I kind of scattered dollar bills all throughout the mansion. And when they and I course program, and so when the kids clicked on it, a little note card pops up. And note card gives them information about the character, but they have to type in the chat bar, the answer. And as they do that, they sort of collected the names of all of these different characters. And you can keep on going here, Spiff. They had to type in on a certain channel, because I didn't want them seeing each other's answers, who the character was. So you can see here, they typed in Sandy McSothers was the answer to the question. And then it gave them a teleport. So they demonstrated their knowledge, teleported to another location. We keep on going with the slides. And one of my favorite favorite parts about the scavenger hunt was something I've been trying to do more and more is bring in AR and VR together at the same time. And now granted, just using a red lens isn't necessarily augmented reality. But for me, it was kind of the first steps in realizing, you know, you can do both. And so it's trying to imagine the students sitting in the computer lab, and they all had little red lenses. And when they teleported to this new location, I hid all of these panels up in the, you know, up in the woods, I guess you could say, and they would hold the red lens literally up to the screen. And it would reveal a phrase. And the phrase went along with a poem that they were collecting. So they went from station to station, teleporting from location to location, as they would answer a question, and then hold the red lens up to the screen to collect the answers. So this is sort of that starting point for me when it came to integrating both, you know, AR and VR and really seeing more and more of an interactive component, along with the building component, because as Spiff mentioned, we did a lot of building we built through the Durham and Martin House, and the students built their own inventions in a mall and a virtual mall. So this kind of was just another step in, okay, I'm going to transform my instruction, I'm going to create a scavenger hunt in a virtual environment that I've already used in the classroom. And I have to say, they absolutely loved it. And you can go to the next slide here. When they finally achieved their objective, and they collected all of the lines to the poem, they would be teleported to the top, there it is, to the top of the mansion. And they had to type in the answer. And then the answer was compass. So it was a poem that I wrote, and they just collected all the lines in the poem, and they would do the chicken dance on the top of the Westing mansion. And so trust me, it was absolutely hysterical to see all these students standing up there on the top of the mansion doing the chicken dance with their avatars. That was all they wanted to do. They were just very, very excited about, you know, getting a solution. And it's the same level of excitement that you've seen a breakout if you've ever done one or that you see in an escape room, it was just this genuine joy, you know, in learning. And that was pretty incredible. And so moving forward this year, I am teaching science, as I mentioned. And, you know, it's really hard teaching a brand new curriculum. It's brand new curriculum for me, brand new curriculum for the district, we're following the next gen science standards. And we're using kind of that five e format. So we start with a phenomenon, the kids explore via stations. And, you know, they explain, we explain things, they expand and elaborate their knowledge. And so I've been really kind of struggling with how can I continue to use virtual environments with a brand new curriculum and everything else. We all know it's not fun. Starting from scratch, that's a really difficult thing to do. So my idea here is this science island. And so I did build, well, actually, Smith gave me some all places. And the students are receiving avatars. And I've got to get them trained, we got to go through our boot camp, got to teach them how to use the virtual, you know, virtual teleporting and everything that comes along with teaching OpenSim. And then they're going to get this lab place. And what we've been doing is using it as evidence of learning. So after we finish every single unit, they have a section in their interactive notebooks, where we call the AHA connections, it's sort of like, Okay, what did we learn about Charles Law and Boyle's Law?  And what did we learn about density?  So they're using their AHA connections in their interactive notebook to go into their science labs and build evidence of their learning. And so in the picture here, you can see a density column. There's an H2O molecule sitting there. There's examples of physical and chemical change. So as the course of the year continues, really all we've done so far this year is matter 12 weeks of matter. So apparently it does matter. And so all we've done is matter so far, but they're putting the evidence in their little science labs. And I'm really excited about the possibilities here, you know, instead of giving these assessments matter does matter. Instead of giving these the assessment, they can see, you know, we can see the evidence of learning in their labs. But we're also, you know, using those building principles. And I'm teaching them how to, you know, shape objects and how to lay objects down and how to expand the objects and everything else. But they have that sense of ownership because it's their science lab. And so that part's been really exciting to see begin to unfold. We're not nearly where I want to be with it yet. But, you know, this is kind of the idea and this is the direction we're going to be heading. It's only December. So I'm very excited to see where this particular project goes. So then going back to that topic of kind of that amalgamation of AR and VR, someone mentioned earlier, I do believe I see a merge cube sitting on the table. And so, you know, I really, this is not, merge cube is not open sim. And some people might even, you know, scoff at things like co spaces because they really aren't open sim. And they don't have the power that the open sim has when it comes to having an avatar and, you know, being able to build to the depth that you're able to build. And yet this has been a really good starting spot for us in our classroom using Tinkercad. And so we use Tinkercad early in the year when we were designing molecules and it was actually the Tinkercad molecule that I was able to convert and bring a mesh file into the open sim so that their actual molecule is in their little science stores or their science shops. And so Tinkercad has kind of been our starting point when it comes to building. Just learning what a builder's platform is, learning how to look at things in a 3D mode, learning how to manipulate objects, stretch them, rotate them, all of those details. So Tinkercad was our starting point. And now MerchCube and CoSpaces has kind of been my little side journey that I've been on recently with the students. And if I, you know, if I could, I'd love to ask how many of you are familiar with MerchCube? Maybe you can perhaps put in the chat. Have you heard about it? Are you familiar with it? Do you know what the MerchCube is? So I've got a couple people saying yes. It's important to ask your audience what they know before we go on a little tangent. And if you're not familiar with the MerchCube, it is really just an augmented reality trigger. The MerchCube allows for any merge app available in this host of mini-verse. There's a website. It's mini-verse.io. And there are, so a lot of people don't know what it is. Oh, you're in for a treat because these are pretty cool. The mini-verse.io is the website and it has probably about 40 at this point. Different apps that work with the MerchCube that allow augmented reality to trigger. So the MerchCube serves as a target. You open up a MerchCube app and the MerchCube will trigger whatever the app is holding. Like, for example, they have a solar system app. And if you point the solar system app at the MerchCube, you can see the solar system. And if you do the human body one, you can see an augmented reality human body. So that's been really neat. So we've been able to do a few things with the MerchCube in the classroom. And it's nice because the MerchCube is cheap. You can often find them on sale at Walmart for a dollar. So I have 60 of them right now in my classroom that a parent donated. And yet, you know, it's just another tool that can engage the students. Now, what I discovered literally yesterday is what showing up on the slideshow right now. And that is the ARVR overlap, that amalgamation. And so I designed a MerchCube snow globe in a site called Coastbases. And I've got the link up there if anybody's interested in testing it out. You could actually on hopefully on your digital device, if you're sitting at your computer with a device, you could open that and then aim it at the screen right now at that target that's showing up on the screen. That little where the arrow is pointing down at a MerchCube target. And if the planets align and all as well, I have a feeling you'll actually be able to trigger that little snow globe that you can see up on the screen. So you're basically using the open sim and the virtual reality to trigger augmented reality. So last night I was pretty darn excited about the potential of this. So I'm kind of thinking in terms of my scavenger hunt for the Westing Mansion and how, you know, I could embed targets within it. And I could use perhaps HP reveal or I could use the MerchCube or even QR codes and have kind of this, you know, I don't know digital or AR VR experience for the students within the virtual environment. So my brain is spinning with the possibility of some sort of escape or scavenger hunt. Does who mean it worked? I'm very curious if anybody was successfully able to get it to work. It did work for me last night when I held up the target, held up the app and aimed it at the screen. So at this point, that was really all I really wanted to talk about. I just kind of wanted to share some ideas and thoughts and using these types of tools with middle schoolers and certainly we can close up shop or open up to questions. Hey, does anyone have any questions for other virus speakers? I think this is fascinating. And I do love the MerchCube. I just myself started playing around with the possibility of thinking about writing an app. So I was really excited to see it sitting there next to the couch. I guess they're they're pretty open source is what I've been learning as they're open. Well, they're available. There's there's yeah, they can get a license to actually create an app for it. So yes, almost open source, not quite. Gotcha. Yeah. Being not being a developer that's stopped terminology. I'm not familiar with. Lisa asked how you learned about the MerchCube. Let's see here that how did I learn about the MerchCube? Um, get us a good question. I was at ISTI and no, I take it back. I actually was googling one day. Hold a hologram in your hand. I literally typed into my search bar. Hold a hologram in your hand and this toy popped up and it was the MerchCube. And I'm like, well, that's kind of interesting. And it was $15. And so I just bought it because I wanted it for my enough use. I figured I could play with it too. And from there, you know, I discovered that there was so much more you could do the MerchCube than just play with it as a toy. I know my link isn't working for me either as I'm sitting here trying it. Maybe I'll toss in the the local chat a different one that you can try. One of the MerchCube apps. The problem is you would have to download it. And then now the red lens is just I just bought red cellophane, believe it or not at the dollar store. And what I do is on the screen, I just upload the an image that I created in a Google slide. And I could certainly share that with you. And I hide cyan color text beneath red text, pink text and yellow. So it kind of masks it out. But when you hold the red lens up to the screen, the cyan color shows through because it filters out all the other three colors. And it reveals a word or a hidden picture or something like that. I think of it as on the old Crackerjack box days, they had those little red lens games sometimes in there. And I think there's another game. I don't know if it's categories or something like that that the kids know of it that they play, that they also use it. Mary, could I just throw in one more thing before we start to wrap up? Mary and I are both part of the SD's virtual environments network. And we have our meetings in Second Life basically every almost every Tuesday of the month. So by all means, for those of you out there, come on into Second Life and join us. We do have a kind of winter holiday event. A social event this Tuesday at 5 p.m. Pacific, 8 p.m. Eastern. So come on and join us. And again, we're always looking for people to present at the virtual environments playground at ISTI. So if you'd like to join us in any of those pieces, I'll make sure I put the link to the ISTI Venn website and connect with us there as well. OK, I'm going to pop in here and thank you both, Mary and Andrew, for a terrific presentation. Feel free, of course, to continue your conversations and asking questions individually after the session ends.


Dude, you're a huge fan favorite in New York, and you got a lot of awesome posts on social media You're ready to break down some of your best posts. Let's do it. Let's do it.  Yes, I love it That's awesome. That's a good first one and the second one baby, dude. You love this fish man You catch some pretty big fish. Yeah, I actually bought a house in the keys in 2019 and my parents Love going to the keys and my dad actually owns a boat. So we go we do a lot of fishing in the off-season Nothing crazy. Just you know, kind of like regular fish family-oriented stuff and That's kind of like my hobby to do go fishing with my dad. Yes, one of your most popular posts Yeah, especially on Instagram show them off. I think it's the snappers the mutton snappers or something Yeah, yeah, the the barracudas among snappers the yellow tails.  All right, you love the water so much.  Yes This is this is my dog Tyson with my girl actually holding him down because we didn't want him to fall out in the water We kind of have to keep an eye out for him because he would he would dive in himself So we kind of said hey, let's let's put him on this raft. See what he does and he was acting real cool about it So we were really happy and the caption was you're missing your little guy at that point So it's hard being away from him. Yeah, you get to be together. You have such special moments like this one for sure Yeah I mean we're here for six months and he's back home my parents now So they're taking care of him but every time we get a chance with him He we try to be with him Tyson even has his own driver's license. He does. He does. I got him one There you go. All right, dude You are Miami through and through so much to the point where you got the tattoo on the right arm 305 Maybe yeah, it's something I represented, you know, since I got to high school I think who who put that in me was Geo Gonzalez. He wrapped highly of very much You know and he kind of came back to our practice when I was in high school And it's something that he engraved in me and and I like to give back and I like to show support for my city So It's fun. It's fun to to to be able to represent and to have a community and a city behind my back Oh, dude, you do big time and I love that the caption on that post was I live where you vacation Highly I might not where you might not be with you but Miami is I'm only 10 minutes, you know west from from the beach So I kind of adopted that caption and then obviously put into Hialeah now as much as you love the beach in Florida You spent some birthdays out in Colorado here. You are 26 birthday, baby. Yeah, this was 2020. I was 20 27 I live in Miami. So it's you know, sunny around and I Told my parents and and and my family and my friends that I wanted to go to the snow to see snow You know for my birthday. So they kind of you know Help me out with that and we went to Colorado and it was a great time It was our first time actually in Colorado and it was a lot. There was a lot of snow Did you do any of the the slides like This vacation looked awesome this was going around everywhere on Twitter on Instagram just everywhere this trip that you and the boys Yeah, that's a good picture. It was actually a recesses a wedding. That's right He invited us over there. So we went to Mexico. We got to check out Mexico. It was awesome. The wedding was beautiful I'm very happy that I got invited and it was it was such a cool experience because You know with baseball stuff like that I would I'd never been part of a wedding this actually my first wedding I've been to so it was pretty fun to go and Be with the guys there and and we just had a good time What a great first wedding to go to and I even saw some of your dance move on Yeah, it was fun. We had a great time. We had a great time. Yes, sir You rock the cowboy hat really well and when you go to all these different cities, you guys are last year in Chicago with my girl We went to the bean Obviously, it's you know something super famous over there in Chicago and we want to check it out She wanted to check it out, you know, we also went to the that building where the glass windows are that you can You can stand over a kind of sit on and we did that too. So it was fun Is this one of your favorite cities that you visit because it is different from the Miami's It's different. Yeah, it is different. It's nice. We had a good time. I mean, there's you know restaurants and good views I'd say it's like the top five for sure. Cool. Sweet. It's so I love this throwback picture of you right here, man rocking the shades with your dad He even has a cool throwback Florida Marlin shirt up.  So I think that was one of his birthday posts that I put up Just kind of you know happy the way he has brought me up and the way he raised me You know, I couldn't ask for more and he He has sacrificed so much. So I'm happy. I'm happy I can be like him or try and be like him one day. Dude. So did he have one of these chains? You know, that's that's my ghost the nose chain That's like that's like a house I went to the yard to play a winter ball and he he uh, he was in the team with us and he came in He came he came he came in one day with with a chain. I'm like, oh, I gotta take a picture with this thing Put it on with like three pounds and I was like, dude, this is insane But uh, yeah, it's a nice chain next one. So you're rocking everything cool up top and even on the bottom You got the cool spikes was dude. You kept on breaking out so many over the last few years But this one I know we talked about before. Yeah nasty nester, baby This is actually done by so by sir on instagram. Uh, he's uh, we became really good friends. Uh, even though we don't see each other much My agent kind of like put me through him and and and he's done an incredible job with designing these these cleats I basically tell him, hey have fun with them. I don't really know what I want to put in them Just give me what you got and this is what he came up with and I was real happy with them And obviously social media was real happy with them too. So It was a fun shoe and it was it was nice for him to to do that for me Yeah, man, you guys make a cool one-two punch and you mentioned georg and dolls before how inspirational he's been and right here So this is even back in high school right when you started wearing like I was saying he's like the quick guy So I was in high school 2010 to 2013 and that's when he got his contract with the nationals.  Uh, he's finally able to give back to the community Get back to the high school. So he's showing up, you know, every day I practice, you know, obviously getting ready for spring Kind of uh, show us, you know, the way it was done and the way he did it He obviously went to state champions back at our high school. So he was a big dealer too and he was able to, you know, Uh, give me some cleats and I was I was so excited to wear them when I got him I was the only guy with with with jordyn cleats on my on my feet. I'm like, oh man, I'm the man Dude, yeah, nothing like fresh jays And speaking of the man, dude, you're the man on the golf course. This ball went straight I don't know how you feel about your swing. One of the few You know what I'm not a good golfer. I started golfing maybe like four or five years ago Uh, I just picked up a stick and just started hitting them as I went. Uh, never took any glasses I'm like a 90 to 100 shooter right now. So it's not that great You got the righty swing going, but it's something that I would think that you're good at based off of this Lefty draw at the at the bowling alley. Yeah, it's all right. It's something I like to do. Uh, also my friends, uh You know, basically what we do is like the weekends. We'll pick out a day and and we'll go have fun and stuff like that So bowling is one of our favorites, uh, I have three or four friends that are actually pretty decent bowling And I consider myself a decent bowler even though I don't you know score anywhere, you know, like the Pros but um It's something I like to do and and and I guess, you know, since my strike throwing, uh Abilities, I probably could bow a little better too. So dude watch out mookie. Best No, no, he's really good. He's riding it on the board. Where was this man? This is in the dr Okay, um I had a friend over there that played with the Yankees and the miners But he was already retired and when I was playing with the strayas down there during winter ball He invited me to his house and he had a few horses down there that and I tell him Hey, I want to you know do something cool or whatever. So he's like, I got you. Don't worry I'm gonna surprise you and this is what he came up with. So I was we're horseback riding. All right turtles You probably know where this is going right now But turtles too.  Yeah, it was really heavy. Uh, this is actually one of my cousin's house He's a big nature guy Does a lot of flowers. There's a lot of birds Sells birds by birds ships birds. So and he had this turtle in his backyard So I I decided to carry it to picture was really heavy by the way Dude, yeah, how big you think that was like weight wash. I want to say like 50 or 60 pounds Wow. Yeah, it was heavy and you're in the cage I'm in the cage and I kind of like went in there and held it up Hopefully it didn't bite me or anything like that. So I was holding it like with fear and he took the picture and I just ran out All right, so of course we talked about the fan favorite This is probably one of the biggest ones and actually probably where you saw the the power of social media Was when bronxy came into the picture, man Around the club. I was like, hey, should we do something for the team?  What are you doing? I'm like, hey guys wanted this and so kind of at first everybody was like, uh, I don't know and this and that and then I think we got like in a little streak and everybody's like, uh, the turtle's doing its magic, you know and I mean, we just everybody adopted it. Honestly, everybody in the team was was was really welcoming They you know, it was everybody was with the open arms Uh, we would take it to the hotel once we weren't on the field Obviously would bring it to the field when we were there So I heard one of the clubhouse guys, uh, took care of it while they reallocated it to a to any home So maybe like a month or two back they, uh, put it in a community center in new york Oh, great. Yeah, so they everybody could go visit. Yeah, bronxie. Yeah, so they made a huge deal about it I think they welcomed it like with welcome bronxie and like a nice a nice sort of home for him So yeah, we're happy that he's still alive and that he's still in new york Yeah, and yeah, no, like you said, he was he was great to help the team rally and uh, and and I think What you brought inside the clubhouse and onto the field has been awesome We see them the mustache obviously like the the gear that you rock and everything like that And we even saw the t-shirts and everything so it's everything was a great combination of stuff to make you fan favorite here in new york Yeah, last year was was was pretty special Obviously not only with the success, but you know how people adopted me in new york and and you know people were following my career so It was cool. It was cool to you know be part of something big obviously near yankees and And it was it was fun to help out the team, you know win some games Awesome. Well, we see all of your social media posts. What would you say is your favorite part about social media? My favorite part, uh, I think that we can stay connected through Through our social life, you know daily, uh, obviously, you know, we you know, there's guys that follow the brawn james, you know You know different different athletes that are that are super super huge And it's fun to stay connected with those guys and see what they're doing and see how they do it And and obviously like back going back to the baseball like, you know videos of mov videos of sports center videos of espn like Oh man, what did you know so and so did in oakland today and we can see that So I think the way that we can see things and not only wait to get to our our room and see and watch on tv, you know Uh, social media does a good job of doing that and and obviously, you know There's people using it for advertisement and stuff like that and and promos and So I think it's it's grown a lot in the last few years and and I think it's going in the right way Big time now for everybody at home I know they got a lot of great proof of why they should follow you just off of this conversation But why should somebody follow you? Um, I think uh, I think I keep good good good content on my instagram. Yes. Um, I like to keep Something that I I kind of did over the years was like, you know, I'm 510.  So Hopefully I can keep inspiring all those kids, uh, you know to to keep pushing forward and no matter what the circumstances are There's always a way a way out Dude, you said it best and now's the time for the plug Where could everybody at home follow you on social media shoot out your handles It's uh, Nestor Cortez 12. Uh, that's that's my my instagram handle. So hopefully you guys can follow me


This is stock number 10771. We are here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. You're new and used heavy-duty truck and Ram headquarters. Today we are checking out this extremely clean 2017 Ram 3500 Mega cab short box dual rear wheel This truck has the 6.7 liter high-output Cummins diesel paired up with the six-speed Icing heavy-duty transmission This truck has been fully safety and inspected by our service shop has a fresh oil and filter change All the fluids have been checked and topped off The truck has been gone through mechanically 100% and is 100% ready to go Pearl white is the color we shoot all of our videos in 1080p 60 frames per second So if you have HD capabilities on your computer tablet or smartphone device turn them on right now because it is definitely your best Way to check out the quality and condition of the vehicle Before seeing it in person if you like to check out all the photos on this truck in the upper right-hand part of your screen Is a link right to our website click then check us out there comes with the polished aluminum rims No scuffs or scrapes on that. It's gonna have nexon Rodeo and HTX tires These are LT 235 80 R 17s and they got right around 50% of the tread left on them Frame and underbody is an excellent shape Front fender is in great condition. No dents or dings on that It does come with the projector lamp headlamps the LED running lights and the factory fog lights You can see it as the front bumper parking sensors No dents or dings on that front bumper Really nice condition The grille is chrome trim and in nice shape as well. I didn't see any dents or dings on the hood And the passenger side front fender is in great condition as well. No dents or dings on there Passenger side rim. No scuffs or scrapes And as you go down this side of the truck take note of how clean the body is How reflective and mirror like that paint is We take these HD videos So if you are far away or even if you're close by just can't make the trip down But you're still interested in purchasing the vehicle you can see the truck hear the truck and of confidence in the vehicle That you were looking at before you even get here Trucks port soft tonneau cover. You can see it does have the cargo cam up there Cab is in excellent condition and this is all why we offer the summit auto fast-pass option in the upper right-hand party Screening link right to our website where you can apply for financing to get pre-approved see a payment quote Even appraise the trade all from the comfort of your own home So when you get here all you got to do is drive truck love it and you'll be all set to go notice It does have the Chrome trim step bars lower rockers all look really great And the frame and underbody on this truck Is an exceptionally clean condition? It does have all the remaining factory exhaust on here The dually tubs look like they are in really nice shape back rims Excellent condition as well. I didn't see any scuffs or scrapes or corrosion on them and the back tires have just as much Tread as the front tires maybe even a hair bit more and see it does have the auto leveling Suspension back here with your rear airbag suspension. That's for alternate trailers. So if you got trailers that are different weights You can program it for that and it'll adjust your height to make sure everything's level As we come around to the back of the vehicle rear bumper is in really nice shape It does have the backup parking sensors full towing package Which includes a receiver hitch four pin and seven pin wiring and the tailgate is in excellent condition as well I didn't see any dents or dings on that the trucks port soft tonneau cover. No rips or tears on there That looks like it's in really nice shape And that trucks port is made by Truxedo this one comes with a very nice sprained bed liner fifth wheel and goose neck prep package as well as the seven pin wiring in the bed and led bed lighting I Didn't see any dents or dings back here, and it is in really really nice shape Shuts nice and solidly And as you go down the driver's side just as clean as that passenger side That dually tub is in great condition as well And it still has all the rock guard 3m stuff on it And for full disclosure this back rim is in excellent shape as well. No stuff so scrapes on that one And down the rest of this side of the truck looks really good Didn't see any dents or dings and that Those step bars are in nice shape as well As well as the lower lockers. You do get the chrome trim mirrors. They fold out like so. They are heated they have led directional signals in them and They do power fold in So I always like showing both sides So that you know that both sides are working good Power windows power locks power mirrors.  There are no rips. There are no tears on those seats Very nice conditions side current airbags memory driver seat lumbar Both these seats are heated and cooled you we have a nice set of factory all-weather floor mats in this truck as well And as we hop inside you can see that this one has 27,556 miles. You do get the digital speedometer outside temperature display time trailer break in and your compass and Yes, we will be putting fuel in this vehicle right after this video But you can change all those corners to read pretty much whatever you want as They heated leather wrap steering wheel cruise controls on the right Bluetooth and information center controls on the left Audio controls on the back of the steering wheel. This one does have the six speed heavy-duty Isen transmission the 8.4 3c radio AM FM and serious XM radio capabilities. It does come with the factory navigation system on it You can do your AM FM and serious. You got your heated seats cooled seats And your heated steering wheel buttons there. You can check out the backup cam And then you can also check out the cargo cam which would be nice if you had the tonneau cover off You can see what's going on in the bed and notice I don't even have to put those in reverse to check those out You do your get your climate control here as well including your dual climate control air conditioning works great in this vehicle And if you don't like using the controls up there, you can use the more tactile controls down here for your volume and tune as well as your climate controls there Turned out four-wheel drive Factory brake controller alternate trailer height. That's part of that rear auto leveling suspension in back Stability control to a haul factory exhaust brake front and rear parking sensors heated and cooled seat buttons If you like the more tactile buttons down there as well You do get your keyless entry part of that entering-go system and your factory remote start last but not least you get a hundred fifteen volt 150 watt plug-in Factory all-weather format on the passenger side. No rips or tears on that seat. This truck smells very clean inside I don't think it's ever been smoked in the headliner is an excellent shape And it does come with the power sunroof This truck's pretty much loaded up with just about every option you could get on these heavy duties for 2017 You also have your power siding your window map lights and your home link buttons for your garage door security systems and lighting systems 9-1-1 and assist buttons in the mirror Those are features of the vehicle that you never have to pay a subscription for alpine sound system And that's why you get those speakers in the ceiling and back There is a subwoofer to and we'll take a quick look at those back seats and then check out under the hood The back seats are just as clean as the front seats You also get a winter front back here and we do have an all-weather format back here as well These back seats are heated on the outboard side. They do have the latch child safety systems For any child car seats And then I'm just gonna throw this over here so I can show you how These seats work. There's two different ways to get these seats down. The first way is the whole seats Go down nice and flat like so And you can see that you get a lot of storage area back there You got your latch tether anchors and that power sliding rear window as well Now if you just wanted to put the backrest down gives you a higher load floor So it's easier to put stuff in and grab stuff out And both sides go down so that's a really nice feature as well and your heated seat buttons are right there Do you get the child safety locks on the back doors here and the bottoms of the doors all look really good as Do the kick panels We'll take a quick look under the hood and I would personally like to thank you for checking out the video today And hopefully from this HD video you will been able to tell just how clean this truck is all the way around inside Oh under the hood We have the high output 6.7 liter Cummins diesel engine base very clean runs very smooth This truck has been fully safety then inspected by our service shop as a fresh oil and filter change all the fluids have been checked And topped off in this truck is 100% record ready to go I'd highly recommend it from a quality and condition standpoint and to see more pictures of this truck or one of other 450 new And use cars trucks SCVs minivans wranglers. 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