Tom here from launch systems and if you want to do more than you know, just turn it on and off again You need some it training. So we're gonna talk about it pro TV and Their review of their product itself something we've actually been using for a long time If you want to learn more about me and my company head over to Lawrence systems calm If you would like to hire short project or Z highest button up at the top If you'd like to support this channel other ways some affiliate links down below to get your deals and discounts on products In service we talked about this channel and yes, there is one for it pro TV And that's where I wanted to start and why do I say it like that? Well, there's an affiliate link and there's a sponsored video Those are two types of sponsorships that you generally see people on like YouTube or podcast or whatever media we're creating You'll find people sponsoring us. I do not get Sponsored by it pro TV, but I do have an affiliate link now The difference is sponsored means they threw money at me to say this and say nice things about them Affiliate links means I have a deal I can give you use that link you get a discount I get a cut of that and everybody wins you get some training at a discount I get some affiliate commissions based on how many people click on it and you start using it pro TV Which is a great service now I want to say it like that too because someone's gonna say but you're just biased because you have an affiliate count And that's why I'm so upfront I'd like to be as transparent possible on this channel if anyone sponsors a video it will say if the video is sponsored If I was given something like a company sent me a product review I say it was sent in review By such-and-such company and free nas and unifier great examples that they've sent me devices to review and some of which I get to keep so my bias if there is one yeah, okay We're all biased a little bit. I guess I try to be as factual as possible But I just want to make sure that's disclosed before I don't want to say it at the end of the video That way maybe go on I want to watch a guy who's got an affiliate link I want someone who doesn't have an affiliate link to tell me about it pro TV So make that decision for yourself and let's dive into what is it pro TV? So it training you'll want to watch that's one of the slogans or binge worthy content. Um, I really do like it We were using them for quite a while prior to me saying hey, let's reach out to them and see if we can do an affiliate link I actually signed up with Leo Laporte's affiliate link He spoke very highly of them and seems to think they're doing a good job now They were fans down here of the back in the day for those you've been in tech was got some great here like myself So if I tee tech TV so it pro TV was this concept going hey that tech TV thing you guys were doing Leo That was pretty awesome. So they were fans of Leo when he was on tech TV Just like I was I miss those early days when that was a great tech channel and all this nerds rejoiced at its existence And then we all cried when it died But that happens life moves on now the trainings move to online Now I have this discount code, but we will talk about pricing now. This is pricing as of April 2020. So don't Consume this is the pricing right now whatever right now is for you But they're monthly fee for the full video library is only 29 bucks a month They're ad labs and tests only another $20 at $49 a month starter pack $0 the other thing you can do is they do have a free seven-day trial You could stay up 16 hours a day times seven and pour a lot of information your head for this there If that was really your goal, I think that would probably a terrible idea But you could try it and really heavily review it before you commit your $29 They actually it's kind of cool that they give you the first seven days You're free and the limited video library you got is great way just to assess it So I'm just saying you can definitely Learn a lot from and they have and bulls run down a few of the features their daily live broadcast Locks us like free content iOS app Android app Apple TV and Roku so you can watch it on you know, whatever noise you want Access to on-demand course library live chat with hosts and other members Post questions to respond in a Q&A form download course video audio. That's with the annual membership only so you can have it local access a dev pro office pro TV creator pro TV and biz pro that's with your standard and take practice tests is Kind of a interesting one that you're only going to get with the premium but launched premium virtual labs These are really cool on the virtual labs and we'll cover that last but that's a really neat feature now Also, I have as a business owner using this so if you're coming at it not from an individual learning side But as a business owner site, yes, they do have different business plans So training for business which does include as well The ability to track all your staff give them assignments and say these are the things I want you to do These are things you work on and then track their progress to it So it's got an entire nice dashboard for managing all that so if you are someone running a business like myself And I do have my staff in here And I do you can suggest that they do training all the time But sometimes people need to be trained on something specific so Assigning your technicians a class makes a lot of sense because training is where it's at. All right, let's dive into a Different account that I have logged in here that's not mine so you can look at it from completely from the side of a User and what user did I create my son Marcus? So I decided that Marcus should because he's not in school right now due to the things going on in April of 2020 I decided that he should go through some IT training on here He's 13 years old and I also wanted his feedback because I have my feedback as an IT person But I wanted someone who's never done working in IT and my son says, you know It's not watching his gamers like he's used to it's not quite as exciting as that But he is enjoying it and learning quite a bit and starting to get some of the fundamentals down Which I think is great. What do they have in terms of courses? Let's just jump there. Yeah, you're getting started Cisco AWS big data biz pro TV just a lot of other things in here virtualization skills six sigma So it's kind of a combination of not only Skills for learning tech but some of the business related skills for getting a job I think that's really cool that they've got that. I've not reviewed much of their business stuff I have done their courses on things I know is how I started because that was my way of evaluating whether or not they were any good Because if I took a thing I knew and went through the course on it I would have a better idea of what or not they were accurate and I do enjoy it I thought they did a great job on there. Um, they keep it very serious not boringly serious But I will say that they are very on point. No shenanigans. I see that because this is something I try to do on my channel when I do a tutorial I follow through and You know try to keep it right to the point walk through each step Some people I've seen insert a bunch of silliness in between I guess to maybe keep you entertained But to me if you go too far into that I don't mind being not serious or joking at the beginning or end or having silly names when I named a server But focused is the important part So I'm not distracted during the interview at least during the review process or tutorial process that I'm doing That you can sort by certification you can start by your job role So these are all the different categories and options that you have on here And then of course you can just jump up the top and search if we want to learn about Linux SSH or Linux security, let's dive into something like that You can just search over here Risk management frameworks, that's actually a pretty good one there Linux essentials. All right, that sounds good cybersecurity and of course we could just go back and Well, we'll click on one of them here and way it comes up like going through the entire risk management framework and Each one all ten minutes forty one seconds prepare for the course and they have each trainer and their trainers are really good Everything's been great. So let's look a little bit closer At a course or a specific one like let's go through the Linux command line You see we've got getting started terminal and shells etc etc Each one of these has show notes down here at the bottom So these are notes you can copy paste things back and forth You could just download the notes as a PDF Now the other really neat things is and we'll go over here. Like I said, it supports Roku Chrome and everything else We got the Chromecast rate from Here the thing I like is we'll go over here as I have transcription turned on and you know, sir One's going really fast. That's because you can Go here and set the speed. I'll talk fast I'm trying to talk a little bit slower for this review But I generally prefer to talk fast and it's also out of habit of listening everybody talk fast because I listen so many things At 2x so that's definitely a thing now the transcript is really interesting here because it's not only a transcript it has Highlighting as they're going so this is running up here at the top The video itself is at the very top and it's going through in transcribing and Highlighting each section of the transcription This makes it if you're maybe even a non-English speaker, but you read English well or you're not sure what they said For any particular reason you can get the entire transcript of every one of these which is just incredibly that they have all this on there Like I said, they've really done a much more extensive job on training than I've seen some of the other systems do I'm but I have not done just because someone's going to ask me about every other one out there I've not done an extensive review of every system out there, but I do really like the presentation style I like the fact that they zoom in on each of the commands They make things very clear and of course everything is right here on the screen if you turn on closed captioning So you can watch each part of it now Practice tests these are important if you plan to get certified certifications are sometimes the Gatekeeper from getting a job that's just a fact of things whether or not you have different feelings and what are not those certifications are valid Some certifications are easy some of them are very difficult and in the early days of tech. I will admit They weren't always that valuable We used to have the joke called you know paper MCSEs people who got their certified professional But didn't know how to do anything that was a common problem I will say certifications over the last 20 years that I've worked in technology have gotten substantially better It's also like I said a way many businesses they go at least if you went through the trouble of this Certification you've gone through some levels of training just saying hey, I know computers. I know how to fix the cloud Can you just hire me to be your cloud engineer? That's not an easy way to get a job. They're looking for some experience and credentials on there now Hands-on learning is where it's at. This is something that means a lot to me I do have this hey fun lab and all the stack of equipment back here This is a feature that to me for the price is pretty outstanding to include this on there I will tell you I spend more even though it's a bunch of you know parts I put together sometimes in old servers You'll spend more Versus all the labs you'll get trying to buy all this and trying to build your own lab not to mention Sometimes standing up the lab can be hard and I'm not discouraging of anyone to build a lab amazing if you have the Skills and time to do it, but if you're focused on training and you are working on being a cloud engineer You need access to a cloud lab that simulates something that you've got set up. Well, that's what this is right here They have a really slick amount of virtual labs in here It's all included with your higher-end subscription course But if this is something you want they have it all done in a browser builds out everything else and Let's find a good Linux lab in here And spin one up. So let's install SQL age service Let's jump over to this one right here Launch hard disk layout. That sounds cool. This was a lab for the CompTI Linux and we'll go ahead and what do we want here default? Yeah, high contrast. That's fine we'll go ahead here and we'll do this all in real time as we speak here and Let's see let's power it on and Close this lecture lab guide go through here You kind of get the idea that it's pretty fast here and we're watching it step-by-step spin up takes about That long to spin the lab and get going it's all done right here in your browser and We'll go ahead and Press center and it's going to boot up this a lab demo for CompTIa link designing hard disk layouts And away we go pretty straightforward for building it now I didn't have to build any virtual machines or anything else like that. They take care of it They have restart start over again. Oh look, it's acting funny. There we go now. Let's boot it up. Hey look we have a My own Here we go my own sent OS install so I'm ready to start playing around with it and following the guide from the training I just did so I can learn how to Implement and actually hands on the keyboard try it and of course the first step is Regurgitating what you learned and just typing the same commands the second step in learning is more frequently All right now We're going to see how I can customize it myself and having a lab is way better than breaking your own machines for sure These aren't Yeah, here we go tools and resources. Oh, they have an intranet everything. This is interesting I've been I never even opened the browser in there. I've just gone through I don't use the virtual labs as much because we have our own lab I know my staff has used them more than I have for some of the Cisco training They were doing and learning well the last couple things I want to cover on IT pro TV is Q&A forum so they do have a general discussion forum where you can have discussions They do have the on-air which is cool Which I believe right now because it's 943 a.m. They should yeah, they get their live show going so this is Fun to wow hijacker hijacks YouTube accounts to broadcast build gates themed crypto Ponzi scheme That's interesting. They do cover the news and Rapid-fire questions who got poem some great conversations you can have in here So it's very much like a similar to a live YouTube stream as well. Their staff is very knowledgeable I've been on their podcast as well great great bunch of people and then they have the learning coach system down here at The bottom to help you with the coach's playbook for getting certified job resources And talk to some of them They've got they've thought a lot about how to make sure that this is a good experience from top to bottom So my review of both as a user and yes I know people say I'm biased because there's an affiliate link, but I'm really happy with IT pro TV It's been good for my staff. It's been good to assign learning to them. They have found it very helpful I have found it helpful. I went and done some of the courses myself. I mean, I don't know everything It's really really difficult to know everything or keep up with things So sometimes just going through and picking out some of the course outlines I just went through because I'll admit it. I am not good at using I'm a var log message guy more so than the journal control messages So I know how to use them in basic, but there's some good training on it I just went and watched that one yesterday and thanks Don that helped me get a little better at it I just been such a long-time Linux here as you get used to using far along messages and anyways I found their training to be accurate. Like I said watching things no problem following along and setting it up and Redoing some of my scripts that I should have redone a while ago that we're looking in var log messages That could have easily I didn't remember all the different filter commands for journal control So that's a good one to start if you want to start there Or if you are new to Linux start at journal controls that are var log messages because journal controls the newer way But then someone's gonna have an argument about system D and you can learn both There's the best part and they have training on both all the system D functions and all the older and how to do messages I'm overall really happy with it pro TV. How's that? Their training's been great I may do some of their business training because I find it kind of interesting and now that I have a sales person I may see what he thinks of it. I mean he's not gone through Any of the training on here at all because I mostly think of it as a technical thing But they do have all the business training as well, which I think it's fascinating So I'll leave my affiliate link if you'd like to use it if you just want to sign up for it pro TV and say screw that Tom guy don't want to help him out That's fine, too They got a great team over there and signing up for their services is you know like I said I think it's a good thing so my review is thumbs up on it pro TV alright Thanks, and thank you for making it to the end of the video if you liked this video Please give it a thumbs up if you'd like to see more content from the channel hit the subscribe button and hit the bell icon If you like YouTube to notify you when new videos come out If you'd like to hire us head over to Lawrence systems calm fill out our contact page And let us know what we can help you with and what projects you'd like us to work together on If you want to carry on the discussion head over to forums not Lawrence systems calm where we can carry on the Discussion about this video other videos or other tech topics in general even suggestions for new videos They're accepted right there on our forums, which are free Also, if you like to help the channel in other ways head over to our affiliate page We have a lot of great tech offers for you and once again, thanks for watching and see you next time


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Welcome to Digital Asset News, I get top stories in Cryptocurrency and Digital Assets and break them down into bite-sized pieces. Today, Game Changer. This is the first and only story I'm going to talk about. PayPal to open up network to cryptocurrencies. And this is something that we have talked about about three or four weeks ago and now it is a confirmed reality. So we'll go over that. But before we do it, let's take a look at what's going on the market. So today is October 21st. It is 9.50 a.m. in the morning. And I had to stop everything I was doing just to make this video. That is how big it is. So what's going on? Well, Bitcoin's doing pretty good. And why not? It just got listed on PayPal or is going to be used in PayPal. I'm going with three other currencies, which we'll get to in a bit. And Bitcoin went up 7% in 24 hours. 11.3% for seven days and it's almost going to push through 13K. So we will see. Ethereum also up because it is one of them. And I'll get the other ones. Tether's Tether, XRP, Little Pump, Bitcoin Cash, 6.9, Binance Coinflip before. Everything's pretty much up. Even Litecoin, 10.7. Cardano, 3.5, 4.5, 2.9 for EOS. Looks like everything. Crypto.com still down again, which there's been a lot of different problems going on with the rewards program and Crow. So I don't know what to tell you about that one, but it doesn't look too positive. However, there are other options out there for you. If you're a staunch Crypto.com supporter, great. I mean, just stick with them.  Me, myself and I, I personally like Celsius. They give me a great APY, very secure. Love them. But that's all up to you. Tron, 0.2. Okay. Stellar, 3.1. Tezos, CDI, 9.7. Great. 6.6 for RAP, Bitcoin. That's just RAP, Bitcoin. And that's pretty much it. You're going to see a little bit of a pump today. And I think it's going to continue throughout the week, especially as people start talking about it and they're able to actually wrap their head about what is about to happen. So without further ado, let's take a look at what that is. So PayPal in the game. Congratulations. We all won. So this was sent to me by B-Boy via Twitter. So I want to say thanks so much to B-Boy. I really appreciate it, especially so early in the morning. It was already a good day. Now it turns into a great one. So this is what happened. PayPal Holdings, PYPL, oh, set on Wednesday. That is today. It will allow customers to hold Bitcoin and other virtual currencies in its online wallet and shop using cryptocurrencies at the 26 million merchants on its network. Let you just sit back, take that in and realize what's going on. What this is, is this is mass adoption on a grand scale that really couldn't be done without PayPal coming into the fray. And the things they're doing to make this happen, I understand now why it took so long for them to do it. We'll get into it. I got to say, tip of the hat, because PayPal really did a great move here. First of all, they were going to do the Facebook Libre project. But they quickly realized that was a non-starter for regulation issues and the fact that PayPal had so much heat around them. And they went off and they said, you know what, let's just meet behind closed doors and figure out what we're going to do. And they played it perfectly. So this story, it's 9.50 right now and this story came out just 30 minutes ago. It should be a Reuters. So this should be a good one and people should be talking about this all day long. Anyhow, the new service makes PayPal one of the largest U.S. companies to provide consumers access to cryptocurrencies, which could help, could, that's funny. This could help Bitcoin and rival cryptocurrencies. There's no rivalries. We're all in the same field. We're all trying to do the same things. We're all trying to get mass adoption. So yes, different cryptocurrencies do different things. But in all honesty, it is us against the world and I like to feel like we are all one big community and this just kind of proves it. So what's good for one is good for all. Bitcoin comes up and some other projects get going. Water rushes in, all the ships rise. So let's just take this W today.  This is a big step. The San Jose California-based company, PayPal, hopes the service will encourage global use of virtual coins and prepare its network for new digital currencies that central banks and companies may develop. President and CEO Dan Schulman said in an interview, so they're saying, hey, look, we know that you central banks are not great at innovation. So we're going to help you out.  You guys are not innovators. We're innovators. That's what we're all about. So he states, we're working with central banks and thinking of all forms, digital currencies and how PayPal can play a role, he said. And it's a good strategy. They're working with them. They're not working against them. But they're like, hey, we know you guys got problems. We'll help you out. U.S. account holders. This was big for me, some of the U.S. U.S. account holders will be able to buy, sell and hold cryptocurrencies in their PayPal wallets over the coming weeks, the company said. PayPal plans to expand the service to its peer-to-peer payment app Venmo. Wow. They're going to go not only from, for PayPal but the peer-to-peer app Venmo and some other countries in the first half of 2021. What that means is that I don't know where you're at. I don't know if you're in Spain, Japan, in China or whatever, but Venmo in the U.S. and I think around the world in some places is pretty big. We, I use it a lot around here and it's really great because I can just, you know, make a transaction via Venmo to anybody via text message and works out pretty good. So if I can do something like this and I'm like, oh, I got cryptocurrencies. I can use that, boom, off it goes. This is going to be great, actually, to help me pay for certain things. So I'm really, really jazzed and excited about this. But when I was reading that, I just thought to myself, Jesus, if I was an exchange, I would be kind of like, dang it, there goes, there goes some more business because I mean, look, PayPal is everywhere.  I mean, make no mistake about it. There's, I would assume, I don't know for sure, but there's probably a little bit of a fee and if they can undercut some of the prices of say a Coinbase, not good for Coinbase. Again, just eating it at the market. But I don't know, we will see. I mean, that's the whole thing with the business and free markets, the better business, the better products will rise to the top and other places will fight for the scraps. Anyhow, the ability to make payments with crypto will be available from early next year, the company said, fantastic. And like I've always said in this channel, 2021 is going to be the year. I just don't see any way around it. And this is just one of those things like, we will probably point back to this and go, what happened in October?  We had Square come out and they bought 50 million. We had NY Dig, I forgot to name another company. They came out and they bought 110 million. And then on top of that, Grayscale keeps buying up everything left and right for their customers. We got Fidele Digital Assets. We have Ameritrade. We have all these different big companies, Paul Tudor Jones. Just everything's coming out of the woodwork to really build up to what I think is massive, just a massive bull run. This is the time. So if you hear right now, congratulations. You really timed it fantastic, but we'll see. I could be wrong, but who knows? Anyhow, PayPal's launch is not worthy given its size. The company has 346 million active accounts. Let me say that again. 346 million active accounts. Not all of them will use cryptocurrency assets, but when you start hearing things again and again and again in sales, we have this saying, it takes people between seven and 10 times to actually see it before they actually buy it. So it's the same thing with crypto and digital assets. Once you start hearing about Bitcoin, you know, seven to 10 times and people are talking about, you know what, digital gold, you transfer it anywhere. Used to be a nickel. Now it's, now it's, who knows at this point, it might be 15,000 and it's really gone up. It's the best performing asset class in the whole entire decade.  Not for the year, just a second quarter. Moving down, the price impact will be positive overall.  And here's the issue. And this is what I actually had to sit back and, and thank to myself, well, this is why it takes so much time for these big companies to get in. And it's always about risk and it's always about mitigating that risk and finding a solution. So cryptocurrencies of volatility is attractive for speculators, me and you, but poses risk for merchants and shoppers because transactions are slower and more costly in their mainstream payment system. So the volatility is an issue and the speed of course, there's different cryptocurrencies for that that we know of. PayPal believes a new system will address these issues as payments will be settled using traditional currencies such as the US dollar. Let me say that again. They will be settled with traditional currencies such as the US dollar. This means PayPal will be managing the risk of price fluctuations and merchants will receive payments in virtual coins. So they will still be used and just that they will be settled in traditional currencies. Still a win. I still like what I'm seeing. PayPal services comes as some central banks have announced plans to develop digital versions of their currencies following a Facebook-led crypto project Libra in 2019, which was met by a strong regulatory pushback. And we talked about this in detail yesterday where Jerome Powell came out for the IMF meeting and he said, Hey, we're looking into those CBDCs right around the corner. We're really we're going to put together a task force and really check it out, which was the same thing he said eight months ago. So I'm like, these guys are not innovators. They're not going to do it. They're not going to drag their feet and that's about it. It's going to take a company like this, like PayPal is like, Hey, again, we're the innovators. Step back, grab some bench and we'll figure it out for you. And this is what it was interesting about the Facebook project Libra because PayPal was a big part of that and they were among the founding members but they dropped out a few months into it and they said Facebook can't do this. They can't get into because the governments hate Facebook because of all the different problems that they had with the data collection and the data manipulation and also the the loss of privacy data and what was going on with the elections.  So when they try to do this, they're like, we're not going to let you do that. So PayPal said, okay, we're going to step back and we'll figure it out ourselves. And here they are, fruits to labor. Congratulations. Finishing up PayPal has secured the first conditional crypto license from the New York State Department of Financial Services and this is where it gets good. The company will initially allow purchases of Bitcoin and other cryptos called Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash and Litecoin and that's it. So maybe they'll have support for this later on but this is the initial ones that they went for. So if I was a betting man, I would assume that these different cryptos are going to go up massively over the next 24 hours. Maybe not massively. Maybe another 5%, I don't know, 10%. Who knows? But it's up to you about where you want to spend your money but I would look at those very, very hard. Anyhow, that is it for today. I will probably do a video later today something a little bit more in detail but I had to get this one out because it's such big news and all the different things we've been talking about on this channel and I know some days are tougher than others. We look at these big sea of red like we just saw yesterday. It was just sea of red everywhere, right? Today, pay the W. Talk to people. Tell them what's going on. Elaborate. One of the big things is just enjoy it because there's only so many days you get to sit back and take that W because there's a lot of tougher days out there. So this is the day to enjoy. Also, it's about 10 a.m. I'm going to edit this. It should be up around 10.30, 10.45, something like that. I will probably go live around 11.30 over at Theta. Just look in the description of every one of my videos. My Theta channel is there. I'll be going live and just stop by, say hi, maybe talk about what the heck's going on, take the W, smoke some cigars. Check that out if you've got time. And that is it. So thanks for sticking with me through the whole thing and congratulations. It's a great day.


My name is Colleen Lewis. I'm a computer science professor at Harvey Mudd College and the instructor for the class Programming and Scratch on edX. I'm really excited. You're interested in the course and I hope you take it But first you're probably asking what's this class even about? So we're gonna be doing computer programming, which is just writing rules for the computer to follow learning a language that the computer understands So what I tried to do is take a bunch of really interesting and important computer science topics and pack them into the course It's fun and accessible. So this will be a great course for kids But it'll be great course for anyone who's interested in learning a little bit more about computer science Lastly, I want to encourage you to take the course with a friend It can be one way more fun and two in computer science a lot of what we do is Collaborate to make really big cool things with computer science. You always need a big Collaborative team so start practicing that and join this course with a friend


Hi, sorry for delay everyone, we're here to talk about the paths of becoming an AUC and so we're going to start with introductions, my name is Shamal Tahir, I'm from IBM and I participated in this working group to what started off as non-HTC recognition, but eventually became the AUC recognition working group. And my name is Maysad O'Casing, I work for Cisco as a platform architect based out of Israel and I'm happy to say and proud to say that I'm a contributor to OpenStack that doesn't contribute code. So, perfect. All right, so today we're going to kind of start off with a recap. So this initiative really started about six months or so ago and so what we're going to do is we're going to give a little bit of background on why there was a need for something beyond ATC, what makes someone an AUC, a general update on where we are six months from the beginning and then a future direction of where we're going and then we'll end with just some tactical ways that you can get involved and we'll eventually become an AUC if you do so. So, quick show of hands, how many of you contribute to OpenStack? How many of you contribute code to OpenStack? Okay, so I would say about half the room contributes, a little bit less than half the room contributes code. So today there is two distinct committees defined in the OpenStack charter. One of them is the user committee and the second one is the technical committee. The technical committee encompasses everything which is technical with inside OpenStack, all the projects, all the code, all the infrastructure, everything which has to do with actually developing the software itself. The user committee is a body which was appointed partially by the board, by the technical committee and I don't remember the third person. The third one is selected by the user committee, the first two members select the third. So the three people which were currently appointed to this position a while back and they are efficiently in charge of what we call working groups which are groups which come from the community, which advise or identify certain maybe issues or areas of for improvement with inside the OpenStack suite of software. And most people do it completely on a voluntary basis and they come and they start working on trying to make things better. There are a number of working groups currently defined. For example, one of the working groups was the AUC working group. There's enterprise, there's logging, there is a huge plethora of working groups which meet on a regular basis. Most of them meet on IRC, there's regular logs, there's regular meetings. And these people are very, very active within the community. But there was a need for at least a number of people or there was feedback from the community that operators and users don't really get recognized for the work that they do. The people organized using meetups, they contribute different codes to specific operator, user repositories, git repositories. They participate in these working groups but they're not actually recognized by the OpenStack community. As part of OpenStack, we participate but we don't seem to be part of OpenStack because there's no, up until now there wasn't any kind of way in order to quantify the activity which these people were doing. And they also wanted to be recognized as a contributor. It's also a technical contributor because these people, these users are providing feedback through surveys, through different activities. They're also operators which are providing feedback into the development teams as well. And they would like to also have some kind of technical contribution, because it's not only the fact of people which are organizing meetups, but they're also technical contribution into OpenStack itself. So that was the background of why AUC needed to come about. So as Mej said, there's different roles that we play within the community. And so for AUC, we didn't want to represent one subset of the group of contributors that are not coding to projects actively. So we kind of brainstormed with a bunch of people in the community to kind of come up with a holistic list of what are some of the other activities that people who would be active user contributors actually do in the community. And so this is the full list. So basically we started off with official OpenStack user group organizers. Obviously to organize a meetup on a monthly or bi-weekly basis takes a lot of work, as Lisa and Yusuf can attest to. So we made sure that that is recognized and hopefully benefits from the AUC program going forward. The other part is active members of an official user committee working group. The working groups meet about once a week. Generally there's deliverables just like a project, just like a release cycle. There's deliverables for working groups as well. And so working group members can spend probably upwards of 10 plus hours a week doing this stuff. So it was important to kind of recognize them as well. The criteria, by the way, I'll also state the actual metric. So for official user group organizers, it has to be an official user group, which means is you go through the ambassador program and you work with them to kind of get your work group registered. With OpenStack you adhere to certain conditions and requirements and you become an official. So there's official and unofficial user groups. So this criteria applies to official user groups. For active members of a working group, the criteria is two-fold because some working groups use IRC, others don't. And so for the IRC ones, we basically look at attendance as well as how much you talked in those meetings as well. So it's a collection of either attending a certain amount of meetings in a cycle and also participating actively in the meetings through lines written in IRC, basically. And for non-IRC working groups, we actually contact the working group chairs and we discuss with them so they can give us a list of who their active members are. Generally, the working groups that aren't using IRC use EtherPads. So it's easy to go back and look at that list as well of who is in attendance of the various meetings. Also, we have the ops meetup, which is actually happening today at the summit. But for ops meetups, it's a community-driven thing. It's for operators, by operators. So basically, we get people to sign up as moderators. And so generally, if you sign up and you moderate a session at the ops meetup, that also counts as towards ADUC. Contribution to any repository under UC governance, as mentioned, there's TC and UC. TC repositories are the NOVA, the senders, the glances, etc. The UC repositories are OSOps repo, for example, where you can contribute tools, scripts that you've written to make your life easier as an operator, or even just share best practices. And also, there's a working group called Private Working Group, which also has a user-story repository under here as well. So if you have a concept of a feature that would be nice to have in OpenStack, because it's a pain point for your organization or your market, you can actually write a user-story and contribute it to the repository. And that would also count towards AUC as well. Likewise, contributors to super users. So they're superuser.openstack.org. And on Super User, they basically have guest authors come and help write and craft information in interviews that are beneficial to the community, such as how someone got a cloud to scale or how someone is leveraging containers with OpenStack. And so it's just general knowledge sharing for the betterment of the community. And that takes effort as well. So those could be weeks or two weeks of exchanges that happen behind the scenes to make that happen. So that's also recognized. And then, of course, Ask OpenStack. So Ask OpenStack is a resource where anyone who's using OpenStack or has a general question about OpenStack can post it. And there's a group of people that actually keep an eye out for new questions. And as they come in, using their knowledge, they'll share what they know and try to provide an answer. So Ask OpenStack moderators are eligible as well. The criteria for that is, in Ask OpenStack, there's actually a karma system. So I think the cutoff right now is about, it's 250. It should be 500. But the script is set at 250 right now for karma. And you must be active within the last six months. Because karma doesn't decay. So we make sure that you're active still and you're just not getting the karma and qualifying that way. Also, track shares for some, it's qualify as well. So I think in this past, for Barcelona, there were about 80 to 90 track shares that put together the collective schedule that you see for the event. And those are like three, four meetings. They're sometimes very heated meetings as well, depending on if there is a disagreement. But anyway, those groups get together and even though they're just putting together a track for the summit, that starts a month in advance. And there's constant meetings there as well. And then last but not least, because this is a good list, we believe, as a starting point. But we know we missed something we must have. And so there's also a self-nomination process. So if there's some other way you're contributing to OpenStack that you don't see listed here and you're like, wait, I do something too and it's not here, you can always self-nominate. And there's a review board that will kind of look at that. And actually, we can qualify AUCs that way as well. And the hope with that is that as the system evolves, if we see a self-nomination request for a certain type of activity over and over and over again, then we'll know, OK, maybe we just need to make this a general criteria. So it will help feed the next set of things or criteria that we should be including in the next rev as well. So just one last thing on what Jamal said was the fact, these are things that, of course, people are contributing. They're putting in their time. And so something we have to, the bottom was originally and still is, how do we verify or accumulate, or I don't know the word, how to number five some kind of way, all these things. So of course, if you are contributing, it has to be something, of course, besides, as you said, for these extra AUCs, it has to be something that we be able to count or measure in some kind of way. I'm just writing blog posts. I'm sitting 15 hours a day or whatever at my computer looking at IRC. That's not something that we can quantify. Actually, that's a good point, because yeah, we are looking for quantifiable metrics to tie with the criteria. And also most of the criteria that we have at this point is actually automated via script collection. So that's why metrics also help in that matter as well. So where do we stand currently with the AUCs? For the first time, I think we have some 255 people on their badges, which my badges are over there, but afterwards there's a AUC recognition on the actual badge to say at some reason AUC is a number of 255 people, which were from this list of all these criterias. How many are in this? I'm just curious. Have AUC on their badge? Okay. Good to know. Okay. So of course, in order for all this to happen, there's things have to go up to the governance or the way the open stack actually works. So this was presented, I think, at least the initial draft was presented yesterday in the joint board of directors with the TC and the UC committee to see how we continue with this AUC as an official thing. It was submitted yesterday for approval. There are a number of things which have to change, more legal and language things which have to be adapted to make things more acceptable to the rest of the foundation. And there's still a number of ongoing discussions of what kind of benefits such as perhaps the option of getting a free pass to the summit if you have an AUC like the rest of the ATCs have or voting in an election or a number of other options which is still on the table, which is still being discussed. And that's what we currently stand with a number of AUCs at the moment. This is the first round. It will be something which will continue and hopefully grow more and more as more people participate and become eligible. I think that's, okay. So as Nezha mentioned, so this was discussed. Basically the user committee is rewriting their charter. The AUC body will be the voting constituency of the user committee. So just like in TC elections ATCs vote, in UC elections, once this is approved, AUCs will be the voting party basically. So it didn't go through yesterday because again, there's legal and other things that have to be handled right now. But the board is gonna review it at their next meeting again. And the plan is still intact to hopefully by February, if all goes well, hold the first UC elections. And so AUC would be voting in that. Likewise, there's a need to identify additional criteria. We had like at least four or five come up like right within the last two weeks of trying to get the final count of AUCs. And so for example, women of OpenStack was one where women of OpenStack isn't actually a working group under user committee. But at the same time, they do a lot of fantastic work. And so it was like, it would be a shame not to have women of OpenStack under AUC as well. So we did that last minute change to kind of make that happen. But again, there's probably other criteria in mesh. We'll actually be leading a session today or tomorrow in the Opsa. There's one at the Opsa after lunch. After lunch, yep. To kind of start brainstorming on, okay, what's the next step of this work group? Because this work group is a short-lived work group. We have a scope, which is to help define what AUC is. And so we need to figure out, okay, is our work concluded or is there more work to be done still from the team? And then last but not least, I think as time goes on and we get more and more AUCs, it'll be good and we're gonna talk to the various marketing resources in the OpenStack Foundation. See, if there's a way that we could possibly even do like AUC highlight, like where basically you can have like a subsection or something and just say, okay, every month or every week or whatever, there's enough of us to where you can do it every day almost, just highlight one AUC and say, hey, this is what they're doing. And so just kind of, we're catching up, right? The AUC has been around a while, AUC is just forming. Anything we can do to spread awareness and get more AUC members, I think is in the benefit of everyone.  Yeah, so of course, this of course will be available afterwards through the show notes, anybody that doesn't have access, please feel free to either contact Shamal or myself. We'll be very happy to mail you the slide deck as well. What kind of things you can do in order to, if you're not already in AUC, what else you can do for yourself or for also the OpenStack community to become an AUC and contribute more? So of course, if you haven't used a group for some reason, it is not an official user group, there's no reason why it shouldn't become an official user group. Contact the ambassador. Ambassadors or Tom Fifelt? Or Tom Fifelt to see exactly what is still needed on your part in order to get this into the official user groups. And of course that already brings the people which organize to fall under the criteria. If you haven't joined up to one of the user committee working groups, there are a number of things going on from anything to architecture, to logging, to product, to user stories, to there's a huge list of whatever you feel. I'm sure something will be up your alley and you'll be something which you'll be able to participate and are willing to participate in those different kind of fields. If you have done something with OpenStack that you would like to share, for example, if you wrote a LogStash filter in order to get normal information or some kind of information out of the LogStack or a monitoring tool or a deployment script or whatever it might be, please contribute it to one of the user, the UC GitHub repos, which will also allow you to become eligible for the UC. If you're very interested in sitting on forums the whole day or you don't have very much work to do, which I'm sure we all do, help people out that use ask.openstack.org. That's also another way. And of course, you can also share something that you've done with OpenStack. As you can see, the link over there is to go to superuser.openstack.org, contact the people what you would like to talk about, what you would like to share, something that you do with OpenStack, which is amazing, not so amazing, a good story, a bad story, whatever it might be, please feel free to share because this is something which everybody would like to know and learn about. Yep, absolutely. And before we move on to Q&A, I would like to take a second to recognize the other AUC recognition working group members in the room. So Megan, Lisa, Danny, they were all tremendously helpful in this process as well. So thank you. So yeah, so AUC again is a net new thing. Right now, we just have the little stickers on the badges. Hopefully once the user committee charger changes, we'll get voting rights. And then in the future, there's conversations about, okay, how do we get some of the other benefits that are historically ATC-oriented to be more generic to be ATC and AUC, hopefully in the future. So with that, any questions? Yeah, sir? If you don't mind, mic to the mic. Easier, thanks. Okay, I have two questions. The first one is, the links on the first page are important to me, but I cannot see the URL. So, will the stack be available to us? The deck, we can definitely share it. I don't think the foundation posts decks. They just post a video if I'm not mistaken. But... I mean, the first page, there is no HTTPS URL. Oh, got it. And is there a plan to make the AUC contribution to be realized on stack analytics? Like called a computer? Yeah, so that was actually one of the things that was discussed, was basically using the metrics and feeding them into stack analytics. So just like you can see number of commits, reviews, you could go in and see number of working group meetings or meetups organized, et cetera. So that is actually still in the works. We just, this cycle, we spent more on defining the criteria, but I think next cycle is going forward, we're gonna get more of us. And actually, the foundation is actually, as I mentioned, we're using scripts to collect all this data. They've actually built a backend system already that can automatically periodically update who the AUCs are. And then one of the goals that they have right now is to be able to show AUC status as well as activities on a person's member profile on the OpenStack.org page. So when you go to OpenStack.org, you'll be able to see this person is an AUC and what activities they're participating in. But stack analytics is definitely, something to discuss is just level of effort is a lot higher, so I think we'll get there eventually. Okay, thank you. You're welcome. Okay, just one more point I would like to point out. It's not only the fact of getting something from the AUC, it's also the fact of being recognized as part of the OpenStack community. It means also having more, not I would say influence, but more of a voice of what happens with OpenStack. A number of us are operators or people which are running into different kinds of issues of how OpenStack is deployed or how OpenStack is written or how certain component is written and so on and so forth. And the fact of having an AUC body as well which will provide as a voice to the OpenStack community to say this is something which is not really working properly and there's a number of people which agree with us and this thing has to be changed. That's also not only the contribution of getting something from OpenStack but also giving back into OpenStack to make it a better product and a better solution. All right, thank you. It's a wonderful week in Barcelona. Thank you. Thank you.


Welcome to the World Telecommunication Development Conference, WTDC here in Kigali, Rwanda, where I've got the great pleasure of being joined in the studio today by Mr John Omo, who is Secretary-General of the African Telecommunication Union. John, welcome to the studio. Thank you very much. Thank you. I'd like to start off by asking you a little bit about your experience here as Secretary-General of the regional ICT body here. What can you say was Africa's experience of the first ever WTDC held in the continent after the formation of the telecommunication development sector? Thank you very much. In the history of the sector, we have not had, as we did this year, the first ever youth summit. Being a first one for a faster WTDC in Africa is a tremendous experience for this continent. I think the youth have told us what they want. They want to be engaged. They want to be involved. They don't want to be receivers of what we tell them, but to be engaged in the day-to-day access issues for ICT and to use ICT for their development look for opportunities. And so that, for me, has been the single most outstanding experience in this WTDC, that the youth of the world have told us that they need to be involved at every level of decision-making process for ICT development. There was the Generation Connect Youth Summit that was held here at the first one, which was another venue just up the road here. And there they had a great deal of conversations looking at the future. They said, we are the future. We don't just want to inherit it, we are the future. And then they came to the WTDC to tell us exactly what they wanted. But we've heard all sorts of other conversations here as well, and we've had a lot of great deal of energy and of enthusiasm for telecommunications. I wanted to ask you what have been the major gains, do you think, for the continent and what will be some of the outcomes that you hope to come from WTDC 22? Thank you very much. Let me start with the partner to connect, which is also a fast for Africa, WTDC in Africa. I think we've been able to galvanize the international community to see the development needs of the continent through the partner to connect program. And not just for Africa, but for other parts of the world. And the ability or the opportunity that has been created by bringing organizations in a partnership forum to work towards accessibility has been quite an experience. Now, for the African group, we are working towards setting developments at this conference that we'd like to see coming from the Youth Conference, the Youth Summit. I think the issue of access, the issue of cyber security, the issue of keeping our youth, our kids, ourselves safe online came out very well. And so the opportunity to dialogue with the international community and agree to the fact that cyber security issues, safety online, primary considerations to be given to our ICT development is something that we are really, really looking forward to see. We also have had certain proposals to this conference to do with access. And we do hope, and the conference is soon coming to an end, and I see that there's tremendous partnerships towards agreeing on that particular resolution to do with connectivity, to do with access to both the systems and services for the continent. And I really look forward to the conference adopting that particular resolution. And when all is said and done, when everything is finished and they're clearing up after us here, what you hope will be the results and what you hope for the future in terms of the ICT sector here in the region and, of course, as a legacy of this conference? I think the opportunity to do that which we say and say that which we do is one that I'm really looking forward to.  And so the opportunity to dialogue with the rest of the world and see that, going forward, we are able to audit, we are able to monitor and implement that which we have agreed in terms of objectives, in terms of set targets is really something that I'm looking forward to, because next at WTDC, we should be able to say the commitments that were made and a partner to connect. The call by the youth, what have we been able to realize? There are sort of resolutions or decisions that we've made. How have we galvanized resources in order to implement those decisions? So the opportunity to come back in three years in any WTDC and say, yes, this is what we had in Kigali in terms of our planning and this is what we have achieved would be tremendous for me. John Omer, a pleasure to have you in the studio again, as always, and I look forward to catching up with you again very soon indeed. Thank you, thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you, my pleasure.