All right, so we're at 55, so let's get started. As you can see today, we'll talk about open source and leadership in open source, and I'll try to apply a lens of enterprise to this conversation, but really, some of the learning, some of the practices I highlight, and if anything, it's just guidelines, you might apply to your individual projects as well. So it's something I'll discuss today, good food for thought. All right, what do I do? I am an open source developer advocate at Meta. You can find all about our portfolio of 700 or even more open source projects that we focus on on our website. Just search for Meta open source. I work with open source and also familiar apps, so WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger, like basically anything in between. And more importantly, I'm passionate about open source. I go to conferences quite often. I mean, not so much lately, but in 2019, I used to go to a lot. And these days, I'm glad to see more and more people in person. This is actually one of my first in-person conferences, so I'm very excited. All right, so what are we trying to do today? And I always like to establish expectations, because that's, I think, the key with anything. We will talk about why we need to do open source, why we should, how we do open source. You know, I'll approach it from my experience, but really it's not specific to Meta, it's just broadly for open source. Some of these practices can be used. And we'll talk about some potential open source metrics that will help you define success of your program. All right, so Meta open source. It's what I'm, you know, my experience is based on, but really I'll talk about broadly open source. And what is open source? Of course you are at the open source summit, so me talking about definition of open source is kind of silly, I'd say.  In this case, you know, it's defined as process of making technology, available for others to use and improve. But what it actually means is that we all work together as one community to improve the particular software or knowledge as a whole. I really like to refer to academia. In academia, the main goal of like doing a PhD or doctorate or anything like that is really to enhance broader knowledge in the world. And I see open source doing kind of the same thing, not necessarily knowledge, but maybe some practical things. So why would we contribute to open source? And again, as I mentioned, I try to apply a lens of the enterprise, but you can apply in a more personal, individual level as well. First is the community. Second is leadership. Third is productivity. And last is branding, which I'm not gonna dive into too much, but really the branding part kind of traverses every other why, every other reason of doing open source. So let's take a look at the first community reason. And the main reason, why I'm actually starting the presentation with this discussion is so for your program to be successful, you need to be honest and clear with your stakeholders, internal and external, why you're doing it. And making it clear for yourself is quite handy too. So community, if community is your goal, in that sense, in the sense of open source, it's really reinstating this approach that people behind open source is really the very core of open source software. And working with that, working with that reason, that goal of yours, implies that you need to focus on the narrative, especially if you have multiple open source projects, how do they work with one another? How do you work with your alternatives? How do you interact with your community at large? And having that narrative down, written down as the company or as an individual team is very important. Defining the roadmap with your community, if you have a largely open source project that is controlled or worked on by your organization for the most part, and you're mostly sharing with the community, giving them insight into what's coming, letting them know what's on the roadmap. At that level of transparency, that if anything with enterprise level open source, I see people looking for the most is transparency. So you're giving them idea of what roadmap looks like is very important for your community at large. Okay, it throws, and I don't remember it by heart. Of course it did. See, and I'm not even doing a demo of this talk, and it's already breaking. Okay, let's slide show. All right, then also content and a larger, let me just turn off this clicker thing. It should work, I have no idea why it's not working. But basically, yeah, the content and engagement is for your community to be successful and not just having silos throughout your project where only the people who created the project know a thing or two about it or can contribute and enhance the project, you need to have a way for new developers, for new contributors to work with you, to work on the project. And for that, you need to have content, you need to have proper documentation, you need to have engagement. Be basically on the channels your audience is at, Slack, email lists, forums, whatever it is. But really, have that funnel built for your community is the way to go if community is your primary goal. Okay, let's just see. Okay, leadership. Let me just see how it works. Leadership is the next reason to do open source and when we work on, Of course it does, and this doesn't work, let's see. If we work on leadership, the type of work we'll do, I wish I had like a sound board, like a drum roll or something. Okay, so for the leadership work in open source, it's, some people also conflate or, you know, have a synonym of governance. You can either perceive yourself as the primary leader in the space but also you can provide governance support in a sense that you help bring people with different expertise, but you overall navigate that space. And what I mean by that is you can approach leadership work through strategic planning. So basically working with your project and your community on overall strategy, where are we going? And more importantly, if anything is a life cycle planning, because everyone is very excited about launch, but how are you gonna land that or how are you going to archive that project or give away to another organization. Thinking of that early on is one of the main ways for a project to be successful, because if you just, you know, try it out without understanding how where they're gonna go, it gets tough. You might not know early on and you might need to pivot, but having those thoughts and discussions early for the entire life cycle is very important. Compliance is extremely important as well. You have the entire tracks here around that with open source licensing, code of conduct, all these areas are extremely important and very important to get right. Fortunately, the open source is exciting because you can connect with others at events like this to ask questions, to inquire how other people do it. And so compliance work is very important if leadership is your goal. But in general, things like code of conduct are non-negotiable, you do have to have that to make sure that open source overall is a safe and comfortable place for all.  So, but more importantly, when it comes to leadership work, it's coordination, right? If you do it yourself as an organization or as part of a foundation, which we might have quite an experience with and you work on coordinating with the entire space on where the project gonna go, or you might have work groups which we experimented and worked on with React quite extensively lately, it all really goes towards that leadership work and leadership goal that companies might have. Productivity is another reason for doing open source. And what I mean by productivity is a very long paragraph that I wrote here, or yeah, this one actually I wrote. But really what that means is by opening up your project to all by making it open source, you can shorten your feedback loop, meaning if developers are your customers as well as users of the software, you can get the feedback from them early on and act on that and improve your project. If you can go through all the stages of Alphabet and GA, actually releasing the project very quickly and early on and open source is fantastic for that. You can improve your workflow, right? Cause open source people can say this CI, this continuous integration, integration we have for that monitoring tool that we use in our company is fantastic. Let's bring it to the open source and then you as an organization see that it was successful for one open source project, you bring it over to another or to your organization. You can also think of new perspective and new use cases. We at MATA had examples where we would release support, let's say for iOS or Android, let's say we release something for Android because that was the use case internally. And then at the later stage the community implemented support for iOS. And you can think of how much the scale of our work improved cause we ultimately then decided to work with iOS as well and bring back that contribution and use it internally. So your productivity externally and internally can increase drastically by working with open source. But productivity work doesn't come for free. You do have to do some, put some effort into that. And that thing, you need to increase collaboration, actually have the interaction with your community. If people are making a pull request or filing an issue, there has to be a two-way street that you need to answer. You can just leave that project laying out there with no activity unless you're clear early on. This is an experimental stage or this is just us sharing the work, making all that clear and making clear collaboration is the key for productivity work reasoning for open source. You can seamlessly integrate new tools into your open source cause especially if it's early on, it's very much open and very flexible so you can integrate things into the workflow right away. You can work on certain data and metrics whether it's telemetry data or just granular like usage data, you can do all that in collaboration with your community. And again, as I mentioned before, it's the faster feedback loop, the shorter feedback loop. Here early on what the issues are, you get a broader scope of the users who have a direct channel to you and each other to ask questions and file bugs and create features. All right, so the next really, why is the branding? And branding by itself is not good enough reason you have to think of the other three whys behind it. But ultimately you get to the branding point indirectly through doing well either of the community leadership or productivity or all at once, which is actually quite difficult to do. You can learn more about this topic on the YouTube channel from Meta open source where I, for example, talked about open source quite a bit. So how do we actually manage open source and work like that in the enterprise level? People would sometimes refer to something that's called OSPO or some people would call it open source office or open source console, many other, you know, wording whatever you wanna call it really the way it's defined it's the organization or formal or informal, it can be usually the way I saw it, it would be several stakeholders across the company working on the open source operations and structure. And what it means is responsibilities are actually quite well outlined in a couple of resources I'll link, but some key ones is the strategy work, actually figuring out what are you doing and why you're doing it. Prioritization, whether it's prioritizing the particular work streams or even what events to sponsor, where the audiences are, all these discussions can come and go to the OSPO. It's tracking performance, right? Cause you don't want to just release the project and never actually look at how it's performing cause in order for that project to go through the life cycle of increasing the development or winding it down, you need to have some metrics behind it and that's what the OSPO would do. And really community engagement, again, organizing events, connecting with people, sending swag, all that, sometimes more or less formally done through OSPO. And there is a great place called to-do-group.org that has an entire guide about open source OSPO as a whole, which is funny because then it's linked to Linux Foundation, which has a great guide as well.  But how do we do open source? In general, I usually outline five types of work that I've seen. There is planning work, when it pertains to open source, there is branding work, documentation, and code base. There's also the fifth one, think about what the fifth might be and I'll tell you later in this presentation. So talking about the planning, and I already mentioned before, but really you need to ask why of the any open source projects that come your way. I work at a company that we sometimes get, not sometimes, we're often actually part of the job. You get requests from teams wanting to release an open source project. And it's important for me to make sure they understand their why. Because sometimes people think open sourcing is the goal of itself, it is not. Open sourcing for the sake of open source is not good enough. I usually suggest them a couple of goals that they need to go back to the drawing board and make a decision on. And it means one of the goals could be recruiting, try to recruit more people and sharing your work publicly could be one of those goals. Contributions, you actually are looking for different contributions. Not all projects are doing that though. But you need to make it clear externally and internally and in order to do that, you have to set that goal early on. Branding, again, it's kind of related to recruiting indirectly but if it's just about your work in AIML or big data or in that space, you'd like to share with people. And also it's actually good moral booster, I see. Some developer, most developers that I've seen myself, they like to share the work publicly and it's just easier to talk about it when you go to a conference, when something is open sourcing and talk about the work you do cryptically. And really it might be an option. You actually want people to use your software. You have to think long term. And again, it's type of open source work you need to start with if you're doing open source of any kind. But the more important thing is, figure out if your team actually wants to do it on all the layers, right? Not just the individual contributors but also management has a buy in and one of the ways you can help them understand the importance of open source is through defining what Ospo is, defining the overarching narrative for the company and that way they have already reference points, they know how to debate over doing open source or some feature work for internal stuff. You need to make sure the team is committed, especially long term. Because if they just open source something and forget about it, unless you make it clear, I consider it to be a failure. So branding type of work, it's not just marketing, it actually shows commitment. And I'm not talking about committing with money, you can do a lot of things without much investment, budgetary, financially wise. Branding can consider things like name, have you thought of your name before you named the project or published the project? Have you thought of search engine optimization? Is the project already very popular in different space and if people start searching for it, that thing comes up first over your project. So you have to think about that. Logo as well, narrative around your project, maybe it's part of the larger work that you do. And the social media, right, getting proper handles on different social channels, that's important thing to consider. And one example I like to give in terms of, it's not about the money necessary and it's actually a great opportunity for contributions. DocuSource is a big project that we have public from Meta, it's a great static generator site tool. And this is the logo that we currently have, very cute, very nice. This was the original logo, it's also a dinosaur. And it was written made by one of our contributors who wasn't a meta employee, but that person contributed and it was a great contribution that went into history of the project. But again, just highlights, they thought of that, they worked on that. And again, it was one of the ways people were able to become maintainer by doing the logo work, the design work, which is very important. Documentation, I always put documentation over code base because the code base, people sometimes put on the pedestal saying that this is amazing, this is the most important thing. Documentation is actually the key for any successful project. If you look at statistics out there of the top projects, you would see that they all have proper docs. They have ideally a website which is searchable because people go to those things like documentation and sites when they are encountering an issue. And so people who are gonna start working with your project, the contributors, those who try to use it, they would encounter issues because people who work on projects full-time, they often don't know what they don't know or they take a lot of things for granted, they already have everything built on their machine. They never actually went through building the same project on another operating system, but your users might. And so having proper documentation is the key. And again, as I said, it's one of the cornerstone of open source. And as I am a firm believer, it's what makes a break a successful project. So when it comes to documentation, again, it's great for contributions. We are holding a docathon for PyTorch related this month, you can register at PyTorch.org. But basically, again, it's one of the ways we get people who might be first intimidated by the project and contributing to the code base, they might see documentation as the better place for entry or in general, they'd like to improve the educational part of PyTorch. So this sort of work is great for people to start working on the project. Making your documentation searchable. Usually we do it through creating a website. DocuSource is amazing for that. I'm quite biased, but I can say that. You can also use tools like AlexJS, which is a great linter to find, unwelcoming words that you might be using, whether you are doing it intentionally or unintentionally, AlexJS and similar linters will be able to highlight it in your documentation to make sure documentation is welcoming to all. Because that's the key of open source. And the code base work, one of the main things are every single code base, every single project that we release at Meta, it has several files, including code of conduct. It would have readme where we really explain what the project does, why people should use it, and how to get started. Contributors guide, because if you want to build the pipeline for your contributors, where it's usually it's users, contributors, maintainers, if you wanna have the pipeline, people need to know where to go. And also, in these days, we have great companies like GitHub or GitLab. You can have PR templates, issue templates, so your interaction doesn't follow with person filing a bug. And your next question is, how do you reproduce it, right? Or test is failing, they say, but they don't actually specify what they expected. So all of that is what you can avoid by having proper templates, proper process. So I've talked about four types of open source work, and the fifth one is community work. And community work, as I mentioned before, is, it has to be team-driven, team itself, internal or external, has to care about open source and work on that. It's often focused on content, because a lot of weather is not written content, it's video content, audio, whatever it might be, just has to be a way for people to learn about the project and work with it. Because some of the knowledge you keep to yourself, it's an asylum, nobody can actually enter that space. You need to have a community space for people to ask questions, whether it's coding questions or documentation or any sort of concerns, or they need to discuss the proposal. And all of that, they need to create a space for people to work together, and it can be whatever messaging platform you might use. And really, it's all about communication, especially if you're an enterprise. Talking to your developers, to your users is the key. It's the same idea in business, right? You, overcommunication is usually best. Of course, you take it with a grain of salt and you keep in mind legal implications and all that. That being said, if you approach it from the transparency point, or trying to make it as safe and welcoming for all, you would not go wrong. And Kemi Williams, one of my colleagues at the Meta, made this great video about contributing to open source for the first time in PyTorch, so you can get started right there and you can find this video on Meta, YouTube channel, Meta, open source YouTube channel. So with all that said, how do we know if we're successful? Is there a matrix? There's some single matrix that everyone can use. There is no such matrix. Everyone is different, every project is different. So I answered this question again, like every consultant would, it depends. And so some of the metrics we still collect and focus on and try to define, you know, successor health of a project, repository numbers, right? Or package downloads, independent of the project and the space you're in. If you're working in different channels like Reddit, Stack Overflow, Q&A forum or social channels, what's the sentiment analysis of that? Positive, negative, what's the share of voice? Very marketing terminology now, but it's basically how many people talk about your project versus the alternative. So things of that nature you can collect and work on and there are many tools out there, open source and none. Twitter and YouTube, as I mentioned, yes, please. We do, but it's not open source. We use a couple of enterprises once. And we do use quite a few enterprise and social media management companies that do that. They aggregate data and they provide reports and things of that nature. But there is the great thing called CAS, C-H-A-O-S-S, which is a great open source framework for measuring health. If you just search for that, you'll find that one is more guidelines than a tool, but that will help you to pick a tool that will work for you. Great question though, thank you. So yeah, Twitter and YouTube, you can actually have a feedback and comments and figure out what's next. And third-party tools, there are quite a few out there, but really there is just no single place, single health metrics that will work for all. It depends on your market, on your audience. I've worked with projects with, where the total audience in the entire world will be like 300 people. So you would approach it very different from a community of like a couple million, right? So it really depends. Call to action, really strategize and prioritize when you work on open source in the individual level or in a corporate level, figure out why you're doing it, what's your end goal. Know your community, know who your audience is. Same as in business, this is really, doesn't differ that much. You need to be, you wanna be nice, you wanna be, make sure it's safe for all, welcome into all, and you over-communicate the same way you would do it with any other thing. And still collect metrics. Obviously make it, you know, work with the community what type of metrics you collect. It's in open source, it's actually very easy because it's an open space, right? It's public already. But collect the data so you can, ideally find some correlation. Relation doesn't mean causation all the time, so don't try to make that extrapolation. Oh man, I'm almost talking like poetry now. But collect the data so you can figure out whether your efforts are successful or not. And with that, thank you so much for your time. Please reach out to me in these places, ask me questions, you can also find these slides which quite a few of them on my website. And with that, I appreciate your time and ask me questions, thank you. Thank you, yes, yes please. It depends to what extent we're talking about. Like our OSPO is cross functional, so it will be throughout the company from all the major stakeholders that being said a lot of the open source efforts throughout the company would be, I wouldn't say outsourced to us, but would be on us, right? So if let's say Presto and Big Data is working with foundations, it will come to our team, right, or if there's a GraphQL foundation and we work with GraphQL. So all the type of work would come to us. Your question about, like I mean, if let's say we're doing the meetup at one of our offices, we would reach out to security and like they would, or NHR, they would like issue temporary badges. Or if it's swag ordering, would have admins for that too. Oh, okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, we do. We do have a person who is focusing on legal, actually several people who focus on legal, and any open source. We don't call it OSPO, like formerly, we call it open source. Just open source team, open source department. I would have dedicated specialists in, let's say legal area, several, as I mentioned. Different levels as well, because open source dimension is extremely difficult when it comes to legal part of the world. We have special people for open source who deal with budget and invoicing, especially if you work with foundations. It becomes quite tricky. So basically we have all those covered. I don't know if I'm asking a question at all. Thank you. Thank you for the question. I do appreciate it. Any other questions? Yes, please. Generally speaking, we would centralize that budget for open source projects. But if there are extra requests, like let's say for some of the projects which were overwhelmed with number of pull requests and issues, we could talk about like hundreds and hundreds of those. For that particular project that's owned by a particular team, we would go to the team, I wouldn't call it begging, I would say, you have a problem here, you want it to be fixed. If you want it to be fixed in a way where we resolve the issues, you need to give us funds so we can hire an open source specialist, the contractor to work on that particular area. So that's where the budget's coming from the individual team because they have a particular issue. Because the other option we offer them, let's just archive it. If you don't care, let's just archive and you can step away from it. And making it clear with them right away is the way to go, I believe. But when it comes to larger budget for open source as a whole, as a brand, you have a dedicated budget and you figure out whether the brand is highlighted the most. If it's open source for let's say a particular sub-project, then you do get it from independent teams. But normally back for it, they know the importance because let's say membership to foundations, right? That comes with a number of seats depending on the level of sponsorship. And if the team or the project want to interact with them on the level they have been, right? Like let's say have technical guidance being part of the committee and also management like business side of things. They wanna have three seats. It means certain funds. And the team has to have commitment to actually go to those meetings and want that work. And then we'll get those funds. So really, we're not really bagging but it's kind of central. We try to centralize as much as possible because invoicing and all is very, very complicated. But so we centralize it for general purpose and for independent like individual issues we do ask individual teams on demand. Or like if they need the better documentation. Like our team, one of the things we do, we do find or work with teams to find gaps in their strategy. Let's say we find that they are liking proper documentation. We work with doc team that would find those gaps and to fill those gaps, our team not gonna go and write the docs for you but will help you hire a person to do that. It can be an agency. It can be an independent consultant or whoever else and they would work on that. So that's where kind of a budget is very big discussion point but we're never really back for it. Because if teams don't care for it, we wouldn't either. So the discussion never been that difficult in that sense. Of course if we talk about like CI resources and all that, that's a different discussion all together. I like GPUs and things like that but that's an entirely separate discussion. And I'm also very careful with what I say. Any other questions, yes please. I do apologize. I got slightly lost in a bit. So if it's in short, you had, can you repeat that one more time? Okay, make sense. President or not already, but it meant the project in the meanwhile I'm also finding a hard time for us to bring back that engagement. It's hard to argue, like there's a company that's building this. But that company started focusing on us, or their own thing. They were heavily, heavy contributors to the project before. Is that? Okay, and so to be honest, ideally, and I really like that model some of the big companies. Because the VV companies come with like, you can say anything of big budget, but when they're honest about the things they need, and they hire person to do that work. And many organizations hire an open source developer from the open source community that's already been big there, like have expertise to work on the area that they interested in. Rust would be a good example. I know of some companies who needed a particular functionality in Rust. Not talking about meta, talking about other companies. In particular functionalities in Rust. And rather than doing like internal work, I don't even know if it's possible. That probably is. But anyways, they hired that person to contribute and work with the core of Rust to actually have that implementation of that functionality that they needed. So if that is possible, that's the best scenario. But of course it comes with like full-time salary, or that's like full-time employee kind of thing. They focus on open source. You can sponsor a particular person who's really big in that space because ultimately open source is not free because it's time, right? So if your business depends on that, I would say you need to figure out how to connect money to that.  But still ultimately, there was a reason why that company went out of their way to build the business around it rather than just doing the open source, right? So if you know exactly what you need, you can find a person who already been active in that space and either hire them or sponsor them to do that work. So they have incentive to do that extra, go that extra mile, maybe in addition to the primary work to work on what you needed. But generally if you're trying to grow that project, I mean, that's a whole nother story, right? If it's community, if you just want, if you care about the project to grow, you build community strategy around it, figure out what people do, what the alternative is, meetups, some companies approach like bunch of meetups, some companies approach from articles and videos, it really depends, largely depends on your particular space and project. But hiring someone and giving that responsibility, developers generally are excited to work on open source. If you have an employee who is FTE right now, help them, ask who is interested, let's say, set in their expectations for their role, so they don't just do it like addition to their primary, like 40 hours a week, make sure that maybe they can spend 20% of their time on that open source work. So you don't need to hire maybe an additional person, but you can find a way to do it if it matters that much to the business, right? If it's a feature, if it's a community and adoption, different story, but if it's a functionality and technical part, there is no way around it. Thank you. I know, it happens, it happens sometimes. Thank you for the question. Any other questions? Yes, please. Good question. First of all, you need to spend money to get more money, right?  Depends on your leadership. Some leadership has the predetermined notion what they like or what they don't like. Like some might say, some type of engagement might not be their favorite. That means that you are an expert in open source supposed to be the one to define what actually matters and where to spend the money. In our case, what we do is we have a particular metrics we created, which is basically with every type of engagement we do, whether it's conference speaking, article writing, video creation, because it's also lots of funds there too, because even articles you can do ghost writing, video you can do video editing, like live streaming, all that stuff. And so we usually convert all that engagement in a single type of metrics with every type of engagement having its own coefficient and we report that metrics. And the leadership trusts us that we value each type of engagement according to what actually has the biggest impact for that space. So we don't tell them, we got like 100,000 views on a YouTube video. We say we got certain metrics that we have a particular name for of 100. And, oh, but we know that conferences don't produce that the conferences make, let's say one, right? It's a clear understanding that if we continue spending funds on something that produces one out of 100 with our video, it's clear that we are doing the wrong work, right? So we need to show that we focus on what makes impact. But with events, there's a different approach to things, right? Events like personally, I'll tell you my personal approach, going to many events at this point, I don't believe is the right thing for myself personally. Most of the projects I support are for a general brand, but I would go to bigger conferences, like a flagship conferences, like this open source summit. There's all things open every year. There's some big one Kansas City developer conferences that I personally enjoy. So you would find the ones that actually, the larger ones, larger events. And if I report my impact and money spent to my leadership on the general scale of things, I need to make sure that I don't just focus on spending money on that 1%. I focus on the thing that gives me a hundred. And so they would see that. And ultimately it's being on the same page and them knowing what you're chasing. And if they know that I need like a video editor on stuff rather than spending money on the contracting agency and vice versa. And they will see that I'm spending money there. Ultimately they just don't know what the impact is. So we spent a ton of time and we had great people focusing on that type of work to explain to the broader leadership why the work we do is important. What type of work we do is important. And after we got on the same page, we need to stick to that one page, the same page. So they know that we spend money where money give us biggest impact. So basically TLDR, them knowing what you're doing and just going to conferences by themselves, I'll tell you a story. I remember I was interviewing with companies for developer advocacy position. And when a company has a predetermined notion that it's a developer advocate, your main role is going to 50 conferences a year. This is a no go. This is a right away broken system because this hire would have been their first developer advocate. Instead you have to approach it. We have a plan, we have a strategy, we have a product to advocate for. Help us figure out how to get there. So if I were to just say, I'm all in on conferences, if I were a leader, that would not be enough for me. I would need to understand why conferences. Are you collecting leads because you're enterprise product? Sure. Are you doing sponsorship talks to broaden the, because other big companies doing sponsorship talks? I would understand that. But just making sure your strategy is aligned with your content. And then the budget comes. If there is an impact, the budget comes. I don't know. It's a long story with lots of branching out, I know. But that's how my brain works. That being said, I try to give you some anecdotal evidence as well that that's the approach. But really just telling you, spending hours and hours, spend hours and hours, many organizations I worked at, get on the same page. Because people sometimes, developer advocacy is very new position. Marketing as a whole. So defining that is very important. Because there's also like defining marketing versus developer advocacy. All that is not that easy. And it requires hours. I would spend more time on that than a budget discussion. Thank you for the question. Good question though. What time is it supposed to end? Is it 35? Good, because I'm in a rush. But please do reach out to me on my social channels. I'll answer any questions you might have. And you will see my slides on my websites. dvnik.dev. Thank you so much for your time and I appreciate you being here. Thank you.


Sewing Circle Formal Ethics Committee Roundtable 2017, 11am Participants Danielle Elliott Luke Tennyson Julio Borges Slike Sinclair Chuck Strauss Elliott We are recording. I have not been provided an SAP numeric classification as of yet so we will be referring to the subject matter in question as the Sewing Circle which is the English translation of the local account This is thus the formal ethics committee for the Sewing Circle on its proposed use and ramifications I am head of the committee, Danielle Elliott Going clockwise around the table Could you introduce yourselves for the recording please? Tennyson Former researcher Luke Tennyson Borges Former researcher Julio Borges Sinclair Former researcher Skye Sinclair Strauss Active agent Chuck Strauss And it's a pleasure to be here Elliott You have read the dossier on the Sewing Circle? Strauss Yes ma'am, I did Elliott Then you will understand my hesitation at this being a pleasure for you Strauss Ma'am, with all due respect I was previously assigned to task forces responsible for abducting newborns from maternity wards in Eastern Europe Elliott I see Which is why you are on this committee? Strauss I have a bit of personal stake in anything that means I don't have to hold a clipboard and look a young mother in the eye and lie about why her kid died because the stag needed feeding again Elliott I thank you for your services, Agent Strauss While I ask you to keep personal feelings out of this your experience with current procedure might do well to contrast with the alternatives we have forced to oppose here today Strauss Stay objective, stay professional Wouldn't be here if I couldn't Borges I thought we had moles in major hospitals for that Strauss When it comes to babies Too risky to ask There's the trust we have in their loyalty And then there's trusting them to be complicit in stealing kids We can't put that on them Sinclair Instead of spreading the psychological distress on a lot of individuals We put all of it on the shoulders of a very few Strauss Welcome to SCP Ethics We're a bit beyond the Troy problems here Borges Need must Tennyson I'm sorry I thought this meeting was just going to be a formality That we'd shut this down as soon as it was proposed Lock this thing away in a concrete bunker And never speak of it again We're seriously considering using this? Borges I thought it was open and shut that we'd be utilizing it I thought we'd be discussing best use Sinclair There are enough character class threats that need to be fed babies The innocent, the blood of the pure hearted The terminology is different But the meaning is the same Human Infants Nobody here is saying this isn't Personally, no matter what comes out of today I'm going to be having nightmares over this But if we decide this is more humane than random abductions Borges Or more effective Sinclair Then we really need to be open to considering it Elliot First on the agenda A quick recap of the dossier as it stands Paperwork at this time is very informal And I would like to make it clear on the recording What the information we are working with is at this present time After which we will hold a vote on whether to discuss the matter further Or as Tennyson has requested To close the matter as too extreme a solution for the problem Any objections? Elliot Very well The sewing circle was found in southern Mongolia And its anomalous effects remain after transportation The sewing circle consists of an unknown mummified human Who has approximately 3 meter diameter intestines Formed into a ritual circle The genitalia, specifically the testes Has seed pod-like vegetation growing The intestinal tract must be kept coated by wet, o-positive blood at all times For the seeds to regrow after harvest The intestines exit the mummified man Form the loop, then return With no apparent breakage or restitching Does this visual description match the images provided in your dossier And your understanding of the circle so far? Elliot This will be a recording They can't hear you nod Yeah, I'll go ahead Elliot Good The effects of the circle are as follows If a child-bearing female ingests the harvest seeds First, she will be racked with intestines In voluntary orgasms for an hour This is the process of insemination After which, there is a 7 hour pregnancy period During which time, 8 to 12 human infants The paternal half, the DNA being Mongolian Will be brought to term This is analogous to the number expected of a litter of piglets Sinclair Disgusting Elliot Which is where the circle is believed to have received its name? Sinclair Sinclair Sorry, I just made the sowing connection for the first time I was reading it like sowing to sow seeds Elliot It's not pleasant No Borges I will admit, my first reaction to that was Ah yes, the other other white meat Tennyson Borges Haha Strauss Sorry, that caught me off guard Tennyson I really don't see the humor in this Elliot Norai May we continue, please Borges It's just so much, though Isn't it? It's excessive We might not be using it for Sugary reasons I don't know a good English expression But the only reason I can think of for creating this anomaly Is for the mass production of genetically similar children Sinclair From character women Borges Oh, yeah They were absolutely not asking for volunteers for this From what I've read This seemed like it was made to be taken on long campaigns For repopulation purposes Light Compact And it still worked after we transported it here Tennyson We tested it here I don't see anything in here about authorizing that Elliot Seed growth continued after the intestines were relubricated Males that eat the seeds experienced an hour of incredible gastric distress And spasms of the pellet muscles But otherwise, no fertilization From what I believe was a very constipated declassive volunteer The seeds are still active Tennyson Right Strauss How's the constipation? Elliot Treated And the declass was rewarded for services with double cafeteria credits for the week Strauss Worse ways to spend a day in declass Borges Beats having to feed the Baba Yaga Sinclair I feel like we're getting a little off topic here The next question should be Should we be using this? How do we minimize harm? Borges How do we get maximum utility? Tennyson And is this really better than any alternative we can think of? Strauss At the end of the day, the foundations gotta eat some babies to save the world That's just the facts Tennyson He who fights monsters Borges Saves the goddamn world from monsters Yeah Sinclair Personally, I think we should discuss harm minimization first Tennyson Shouldn't we vote on whether we should be doing this at all Before we spend time discussing the nitty gritty of it? Elliot Then we run the risk of dismissing it out of hand Based on its broadest possible interpretation Or possibly worse, agree on it Before stumbling upon details that make this far worse than current methods I agree it's better to discuss how we could proceed Before deciding whether or not we should Tennyson Ah, the shut up and calculate school of ethics then? Borges Yeah So shut up and calculate Tennyson Actually, allow me to play devil's advocate, if you will Can we all unanimously agree that the current methodology is awful? Truly awful? Strauss Sure? Tennyson When was the last time it was reviewed or refined? Seriously Strauss 1975 When Franco of Spain died Nearly a thousand babies stolen in Spain per year since 1939 We could hide in the margins Tennyson Jesus Christ Strauss Dictatorships don't usually get ethics committees No Tennyson Wouldn't it be better to refine current methods to a more Comparative standard? If we're truly going to vote between the devil and the deep blue sea Borges I guess that makes me the deep blue sea advocate then Tennyson Sure I'll try to work that out while you discuss The implications of your proposed use of the sewing circle Elliot I'm in favor of this proposal Tennyson You can work on that then Borges You seem to have volunteered to champion the argument for the anomaly Borges Alright So for us over here in open ocean That leaves us with Well What does that leave us with? Sinclair When we should use it Under what circumstances How do we select? Mothers? Donors? Subjects? Elliot I know you'll hate to hear this But we're really going to have to argue over semantics Uhhhhh Strauss I'm with Borges You're going to have to walk me through this one Elliot If we decide on this It will have to be written as a procedural report Do we use dehumanizing language or not Is that insulting to the women we subject this to If we rely on volunteers Does it propagate unwanted misogynistic thought processes Or does it just make the job harder On the people who have to monitor an enforced procedure What balance do we strike?  Sinclair Welcome to SCP Ethics Where it's necessary to be politically correct about baby culling Strauss Goddamn We're really going to have to be careful about misogyny How's that played into this? Borges People have strange ideas in their heads about women's right to their reproductive organs And the role for breathing Which we might reinforce by using dehumanizing language I just laughed about a guy volunteering for this too Because it's... I agree with Elliot We need to be careful when we write this Sinclair I want to pick up on the misogynism, actually Or follow on from that There's already a language in here I'd like to protest Borges Just in the dossier? What do you mean? Sinclair Right here it says Racked with intense involuntary orgasms for an hour Do we really need to include this? Do we need to say this? It's beyond pure and unnecessary Elliot It's going to have to go into the formal report So whoever has to follow this procedure knows what to expect We don't want this to be a surprise And we don't want that information to be spread by rumors Sinclair It's repulsive And there's the legitimate concern to me that Including in the report will cause some unwanted rationalizations Dare I utter? It's okay, she'll enjoy it at first Strauss We can lie on the report about the nature of the physical response Call them seizures They're not going to be doing this under an MRI Elliot We could lie I'm not convinced yet that we should Tennyson There'll be consequences if we include it unnecessarily Are you willing to hear an internal investigation report Accusing us of fetishizing documentation? Elliot Let the record show that I am willing to take the entirety of that responsibility On my own shoulders If you still have legitimate reasons for wanting to admit that detail on the report Without the bias of being reprimanded for doing so Do so But we are discussing an abhorrent occult fertility right Tennyson Let the record show I still hate this Strauss Agree Tennyson Just stay focused and this will be over quicker Tennyson Lie back and think of England Orcus Every innocent child we no longer have to abduct Just to throw into the meat grinder Tennyson Instead, we're just forcing women to mass produce them Sinclair Let the record show I also hate this Elliot That brings us to the next issue Are we forcing women into this? Considering the risks involved Would it be fair to offer female D-class amnesty For voluntary participation? Sinclair There's implicit coercion there Considering what D-class are It wouldn't be meaningful consent Strauss Wouldn't fly D-class aren't all idiots If you don't show them the volunteer at the end of the procedure They're going to think it's a discreet execution That the amnesty is a lie To get them to walk into the proverbial gas chamber Tennyson Christ They wouldn't be wrong either Strauss The alternative Is that we have the surviving volunteers do a victory lap of the facility On their way to their hard-won freedom So there are enough witnesses in their peer group to cooperate We'd have to be honest about it too Have to be the same people who went in I'm sorry to do this to you folks But I got a slide of what the best-case scenario of aftermath can look like Full gestation of up to 12 In an eight-hour pregnancy It looks like this at best Ugh Strauss At worst Another click Tennyson audibly gags Sound of Sinclair's head hitting the table And pained whimper Borges wheezes loudly Strauss This isn't open casket material Volunteer methods out Tennyson Jesus Christ This is going to happen to people We're going to make this happen to people Elliot We can't give sedatives during the pregnancy We can give epidurals for delivery And most of the damage heals over time Borges We can't give sedatives Strauss It's in the dossier The rapid pregnancy is also very susceptible to miscarriages from chemical influence Everyone subjected to this will have to do it stone sober Borges There goes the plan Sinclair What do you mean by most damage heals? Elliot The words fourth degree perennial tear come to mind Ugh Strauss Excuse me Borges The internal tissue between the genitals and anus Strauss Yeah, I don't think I need to bring the slide back up to see what fourth degree means then Ugh Ugh Elliot For God's sake Tennyson, show some more decor and a little less lunch Sinclair I'd like to request a 15 minute recess or I'm going to be doing the same Elliot Borges Strauss Borges I'm good to keep going But I'd love another coffee Strauss Actually, coffee and a sandwich sounds pretty perfect now you mentioned it Tennyson How can you still have any appetite? Strauss Need to keep the blood sugar up This is a marathon, not a sprint Borges I really don't want a caffeine headache on top of all this Sinclair Tea Lots of tea Milk and sugar, I think Tennyson Yeah Yeah, alright Does the vending machine still stock Gatorade? Borges Need to rehydrate, huh? Tennyson F*** you Strauss Give us a chance to calm down and come into this with fresh heads Sinclair And permission to bring the kettle back with me? Elliot All granted 15 minutes recess then Sound of people filtering out Scraping of chairs being pulled out from the table Or leave Elliot returns after 12 minutes Borges and Strauss return together after 14 minutes Sinclair and Tennyson return after 17 minutes Transcription continues Tennyson Sorry, Sinclair and I were talking over lunch about my proposed alternative Elliot Off the record? Sinclair Sorry Elliot Well, might as well get it on record now Tennyson Twins, triplets We scream for parents with multiple children Tell them it's one fewer than expected from delivery And have an agent smuggle it out Mostly the same plan as we're using currently Just that parents are never made aware of the loss Borges Look at you Stealing babies and fighting monsters Tennyson You said it Needs must Sinclair I talked him up to it He's putting on a brave face but Tennyson I'm fine Sinclair Sorry Strauss Think about that from an operational perspective though Miscarriage You just sneak a baby out and file paperwork Easy and awful Now? You gotta make sure you lie about every... I can't remember the right word now But that thing where they put the gel in the mother's stomach And you can see the baby Yeah You gotta make sure they only go to foundation doctors Who are willing to help and fake it Then you gotta make sure only foundation personnel Are present for delivery No family And the mother's unconscious Just so you can steal an innocent kid To murder Borges It's less traumatic for the parents, certainly Strauss It's a logistics nightmare Just to justify doing the same goddamn thing Stealing a baby from its parents And you can make it junky teens who never deserve the kid Or only steal from below the poverty line Or justify all you want That it was a baby worth less than other babies But you're still doing the same goddamn thing Elliott Deep breath, Strauss Stay objective Your words Sinclair We'd be minimizing victims Right now the parents are unnecessary casualties Tennyson And the babies the circle... Manufactures Are entirely non-anomalous Which means they're just a normal baby As much as any other Strauss I'll cut you a compromise Standard procedure as it currently stands But only on twins and above So the parents keep their consolation prize Anything more than that's infeasible logistically Tennyson I could be fortunate with that Table it as plan B for now Elliott Sure Borges Strauss and I talked a bit too Elliott Gentlemen, please Strauss Sorry ma'am Borges We have major problems with this ethically We can't justify volunteers Forcing people into this would be even more abhorrent We can't use pain relievers The surgery to get that best case scenario is intensive There's the issue of terminology and dehumanization Strauss What we need are non-people Or as close as we can get Borges The living brain dead Women in deep comas Essentially body donors Elliott I'm listening Sinclair Oh my god Strauss If we're harvesting from hospitals either way Transporting vegetables Telling families they passed It's a much easier process Borges Some families might honestly be relieved In contrast Tennyson I hate that you're not wrong I hate it so much Sinclair You can't count on that though Borges That's only in direct comparison to your plan B Which would be again Stealing babies instead Tennyson Jesus Borges We make it clear they're not people We can use all the dehumanizing language we want in the report To make it as easy as possible On the people who have to follow the procedure The babies that result exist only to be culled And are made for purpose Strauss At a full term of eight hours We've basically made it a nine to five veal farm Tennyson dry heaves Sinclair turns her kettle on Elliott Was that a necessary remark Strauss? Strauss I want there to be no illusions as to what we're suggesting ma'am Borges We agree it sounds absolutely abhorrent Honestly it is Strauss But the foundation eats babies Elliott Informally it seems we've formed two teams Sinclair, Tennyson Can you find any holes in the logic? Sinclair There's is better Tennyson Sky Sinclair It just It just is To me Producing eight to twelve babies from a single brain dead mother Against that many individual kidnappings Eight hour turnaround instead of nine months and abduction It's incomparable Borges A single body donor should survive multiple pregnancies Pain and survival are no longer factors So more like sixteen to thirty per body donor One brain dead woman Against up to thirty individual kidnappings Tennyson Had such shut up and calculate ethics Borges Do you disagree with it? Tennyson No Borges Dr. Elliott Elliott There can be no dispute It is unanimous that this is favored over current alternatives Which just leaves the questions of who will write the report Sinclair I volunteer Elliott I agree The second question is what do we name the procedure? Elliott Do you find the issue laughable Borges? Borges No ma'am but it's that or crying And crying looks unprofessional Elliott So you have a reason to cry then? Borges Yes ma'am I think I might have a good name for this Have you ever read a modest proposal? The foundation eats babies ma'am You've just proposed the modest procedure Sinclair It's honest I'll give it that It's brutally honest Tennyson No Absolutely unacceptable We can joke here but none of that can show up in the official documentation Strauss Joke? 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Hello friends, I am Professor P. R. Kulkarni working in Mechanical Engineering Department WIT, Solapur and we are going to discuss today about the preparation of project report for setting up of a small scale industry. At the end of this session you will be able to carry out the detailed analysis of the various aspects of setting up of a small scale industry. The detailed project report as you know is a consequence of the preliminary project report. We started with what is project report, the need is importance, we have gone through some details of the initial project report and now we are discussing about the detailed project report. After making the initial project report it is if it is decided to pursue the project then a detailed project report is necessary. This report contains an objective assessment of various aspects of the investment proposition of a project idea for determining its total impacts and its liability. The aspects include marketing analysis, infrastructure, input analysis, manufacturing or operation analysis, human resource management and financial analysis. Let us discuss this one by one. Let us start with what is market survey. Marketing, production, finance, HR, these are the four pillars of any business. Out of that market and marketing is the most important because unless you are able to market whatever service or product you do the entire business and cycle may not start at all. Now, one of the basic tool of marketing is to start with market survey for that we have to study what is the size of the market of a product or service, what is the pattern of demand, whether it is uniform, whether it is fluctuating, whether it is a seasonal demand, what are the variations in the demand, what are the buying habits of the consumers and customers. Each business, each service, each enterprise has a typical unique selling proposition that is the major point of any business and it is this USP which makes the product or service marketable. So we must identify and we must be well conversant with what is that unique selling proposition for my business, what is the competition for my business, what is the competitors data, generally we call it as benchmarking of the particular business area and what is the future trend, how the market will be moving about this particular product or service in the future, whether it is going to have a growth, whether it is coming down declining and you must know something if at all is possible, what is the product life cycle management of the particular product. Once you understand it and then once you are sure that the product is marketable, then you should start with what is the volume presently I can sell it and over a period of time what will be the expected sell. Generally, we consider a period of three years for doing this and once we know we are sure that within the three years we can reach a reasonable value in terms of the financial parameters which are going to discuss slightly afterwards, then probably the project makes it worth that unless I have full guarantee of what is the product and service I will able to market in spite of the competition. Now there are two areas in this, the competition is much more, it has got some advantages that it need not introduction to the market, if there is no competition we will have enjoy the monopoly but it needs slightly treating trouble when you are piercing into the market because first time somebody is trying that idea in the market. So both types of products and services will have their own unique features and they have got own their particular concept to go into the market. Once market is there and also has sure that marketing analysis we have done, we have calculated finally what are the volumes, how the volumes are steadily growing month by month and year by year. Then next is for example, we want to set up the complete plant. Now what is the infrastructure required? For setting a plant we need infrastructure and human resource. In the infrastructure we need what is the land, what is the plot size, what are the various permission necessary, building permissions, what are the utilities, how much power supply will be required, how much water supply required, what are the transportation facilities, what is the communication facility and what are the other community facilities nearby. All these facilities if those are available, if not available how we are going to make all those available for the plant. What are the various permissions required, what are the legal compliance required for starting up of the unit and after completion, what are the various government papers or government licenses we need to have using permissions and then we can start with our infrastructure completion. Once infrastructure is completed, we are talking about the project report perfection, we are talking about the infrastructure related project report completion. We are not actually building the particular building, you please remember this into the mind. Further analysis we'll start with what is the raw material or what is the input for the particular business and its availability, its cost, what is the inventory period we need to have. Inventory is nothing but it is the stock we need to have, we need to maintain it for the particular product. Inventory can be depending upon so many factors, what is our lead time for the particular process, what is the minimum order quantity required, what is the customer's demand in general in terms of batches. If there are some items which have expired dates, we generally call those items as shelf life items, what is the shelf life of the particular item, how much shall I particularly how much shall I storage it. There are some concepts called as EOQ, what is the economic order quantity unless that economic order quantity is find out. It is very difficult to have the financial availability for the particular inventory model. At the same time we have to consider the cost of inventory carrying cost, we have to consider other obsolescence and overhead costs, we have to consider the space available for the particular product. All these taken together we have to make how much raw material we should purchase, at what frequency, at what rate, how much what is the storage policy, what is the WIP time, what is the lead time, what is the financial impact of all this, how it is going to affect on the cash flow of the particular system. All these analyses we generally called as the input analysis and where we have to storage the particular material, what is the preservation care, what are the any special preservation conditions which are imposed by the customer, like antirust or some special preventives are to be applied for the particular preservation. What is the storage of the manufacturing and so on. Further we have got analysis or estimation of the building, we have gone for the raw material analysis. Now the next step is once raw material is there, what will be we are going to have, what are the manufacturing or operation analysis. It includes what are the stages of the manufacturing start from raw material or input to the final conversions, what are the various stages of the conversion. All those conversions may need some machinery or may need some technology, we have to list down all those, we have to find out their specifications, their costs, their total investment required. At the same time what are the associated accessories like tooling cost, the software cost, the maintenance cost and related measurement cost and so on. Unless you know I have seen some companies where the investment for the machinery is too big and then it requires for example CMM coordinate measuring machine for inspection. So, in that case the machining cost is slightly or the investment in the machinery may be smaller as compared to the measuring instrument itself. So, you have to think of what are the measurements involved, what are the metallurgy in the particular thing and so on. Once you understand this you should be having enough confidence of conversion of raw material into the finish stage at the various technological processes. Now you pause this video, you think for a moment and you have to think of the machining of a bush is to be done, write the various machining processes and time required for each of the process. Now after the manufacturing what are the quality requirement, what the setup time, what is the manufacturing cost, what is the economic batch quantity, we have to decide all these before you start it. The next part is HRM, human resource management, what is the total manpower required and what is the manpower analysis we are going to carry out, these are broadly into the technical, administrative and what are the performance measurement of these people we should have this. And finally, the main ultimate aim of doing a business is to have profit and profitability. So, you need to know how the financial analysis of a particular project is carried out and the financial analysis includes details of project finance, funds, sourcing of fund, capital cost, profits and profitability and finally, what is the return investment. Once you know all this, then you should be able to calculate reasonable, you should be able to find out whether the ROI is justifiable or not. Generally, a ROI of 3 to 5 years or 20 to 30 percent is taken as a very good analysis. Once if ROI is justifiable, all the banks or financial institutions will definitely help you to finance the project. So, with this probably we can now or we are now in a stage to prepare a project report in detail finally. I hope all of you will start with the activity and make a pilot project report for the practice purpose and get it, we will discuss it afterwards. Thank you.


Now, American Microblogging and Social Networking Service, Twitter says it is working to restore access for all Nigerians who rely on social media side to communicate and connect with the world. The Nigerian government on Friday indefinitely suspended the operations in the country, accusing Twitter of undermining Nigeria's existence. In a post on its public policy handle, Twitter said access to open internet-ease and essential human rights are then that it is consent about the restrictions placed on its operations in Nigeria.


My name is Niki Batangay. I work with Dubduva Foundation. This is an organization working for the rights of indigenous peoples, including in the area of climate change, adaptation, and mitigation. As for the CBA-14, I was able to attend one of the sessions about nature-based solutions in Namibia, Madagascar, Uganda, and Mozambique. And I think these were supported by WWF. So in this particular session, I was impressed on how the WWF or the community itself integrated the right-based approach in their NBS initiative. As I understood in the presentation, they let the people collectively decide a common conservation area. They gave them the right to manage their natural resources and at the same time integrate their traditional knowledge of resource management in their framework. As promoting the rights of indigenous peoples, I think it is very important to integrate the right-based approach in the framework because this will be the key for successful NBS initiatives or programs. One more thing that got my interest in this particular session was the monitoring, evaluation, and learning for NBS. As of this moment, it is acknowledgeable that male for NBS is not yet fully established. Given that I'm very much interested about male for NBS, I contacted WWF. If we can collaborate to develop the male for NBS, unfortunately, WWF gave me a positive response and we were able to exchange contact information for future collaboration. So one of the reason why I intended to collaborate with them is that I want to ensure that the elements and principles and perspectives of IPs or indigenous peoples are integrated in the male. NBS has been part of the lives of indigenous peoples and other local communities even before this term was introduced by conservation organizations. Thank you.


The popularity of Generation Z, popularity called Gen Z Generation and Nigeria has resulted in an upsurge of talent and creativity across various fields. They are breaking barriers and challenging this time to school and various industries including business, technology, entertainment and fashion. At an event tied down to invest the future of Nigeria Entertainment Industry has given an insight into the entertainment industry and has also provided a comprehensive platform for young individuals to explore, learn and connect with professionals. Across from that, we know Elijah Hesmo. Young people have gathered here at the JFID Ajay Auditorium University of Lagos Unilag to get useful insights at the third edition of the Gen Z Initiative in Nigeria, GINN 3.0. The event had a multitude of enthusiastic Gen Zs underscoring the growing interest of the younger generation in Nigeria's socio-economic transformation. The theme of GINN 3.0 was daring to invent the future of the Nigerian entertainment industry. It featured nuggets from esteemed personalities within the Nigerian entertainment industry such as Charles Inoje, Hilda Dokubo and Ali Baba, among others. It also had a panel of discussants who delved into practical strategies for navigating the entertainment industry, honing creative skills and projecting a positive global image for the Nigerian entertainment sector. It's important that young people are encouraged in the entertainment industry. It's important that we continue as governments to encourage young people in the entertainment industry and as also custodians of policy, we need to also encourage them to always, because art is very important in communicating to the citizens. So it's important to encourage them as custodians of our policy to embed as part of the message that they communicate, our national heritage, our national history, culture, morals as well in the content that they communicate. Other notable personalities include the Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Management Services, Professor Lushan Chukwu, who represented the Vice-Chancellor of Unilag, Professor Folasha Di Okunshola, and past Governorship Candidate of Labour Party in Legal State, Badebo Rhodes Viva, who was chairman of the day, and graced the occasion. It's wonderful because every sort of reformation or positive movement that happens in a nation or country historically always starts from the academia and the academic institutions, from the think-ats, right? And assembling young people like this to sort of give them guidance and direct them is the way to go. In most developed countries in the world, this is what it's done. And I'm very excited always to be part of anything that evolves, lifting up the youth in our country, because truly they are the future and they are the present. And the world is not like how it has ever been before because now everybody is connected and there is so much that can happen based on that connectivity. You must give it to the Nigerian youth. He's not just hard-working. He's not just hard-working, but also adventurous. These are young people who are faced with a lot of challenges and also remain sane. Because it's one thing to be faced with challenges. It's another thing to handle the challenges without losing your mind. So I'd say they dominate the scene really. And for a place where you really don't have a lot of grooming grounds and then you have these young people daring and not minding to learn full-rise, full-rise, but create a career for themselves and be part of the industry, I think we should actually commend them. There's this thing about being a youth. The bursting energy that is naturally quoted in that demographic. If you do not trap it and nurture it, harness it for positive use, either by the community or the state at large, it will be used negatively. Either against the community or against the state. So that is why whoever has thought of this, and incidentally this is the brainchild of some young chaps, it's something that anybody should strive to support. The Gen Z Initiative in Nigeria is a social impact programme which strives to inspire active participation among the youth, particularly the Gen Z. In the molding of a better future for Nigeria by mobilising for positive action in pivotal sectors, such as education, health, business and entrepreneurship, politics, entertainment, technology and innovation.


Fermi Faluner has called on the Minister of Justice Abu Bakr Malmi to immediately begin the persecution of the arrested sponsors of terrorism and terrorist suspect. He blamed the Tuesday terrorist attack on Kuja Correctional Centre Abuja where over 600 inmates including Boko Haram terrorists escaped on the non-implementation of section 28, subsection 1, subsection 2 and subsection 3 of the Nigerian Correctional Service NCS Act. Faluner explained that the act stipulated how to secure all correctional centres and urged the Federal Executive Council FACC to urgently approve funds for the purchase and installation of necessary security equipment. He also challenged Malmi to dissolve disclosed worthy 400 sponsors of terrorism and 800 terror suspects who were due to be arraigned in the federal court last year were being detained since only 64 terror suspects were detained in Kuja Correctional Centre. Faluner also queried the motive of the Attorney General of the Federation for refusing to grant the pay to the governor of the northeast to prosecute terrorism suspect, some of whom he noted had been detained over 10 years. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.


The stomach click is a very fun place to be. It's a very high-energy atmosphere and a beautiful place and we treat everyday athletes and we treat high-level athletes and really enjoy taking care of all those folks. It's fun. It's a fun atmosphere. It's a fun place to live and work. I do mostly foot and ankle surgery. I also do some general trauma surgery taking care of broken bones, but I specialize mostly in foot and ankle surgery. Foot and ankle surgery is a smaller field than a lot of the other parts of orthopedic surgery and sports medicine. When you look at the amount of injuries, there are less injuries to the foot and ankle and it's a very specific area. It's a very complex area. There are a lot of bones and joints and ligaments that are within the foot and ankle and I wanted to specialize that in that and really provide patients new and unique ways to treat those injuries and continue to push the envelope in terms of treatment. Yeah, it's a really neat time to meet other folks being at physical therapists and other physicians who specialize in different areas. The injury prevention symposium brings all those people together so that we can work with each other. We can chat, be it after a session in the back or at lunch or ask questions of each other. So it's a it's really a time to get to talk to the physical therapist, talk to the folks who organize the prevention programs and really share ideas because on a day-to-day basis we don't cross paths all that often. This is really a unique opportunity to do that. Today I spoke about ankle injury prevention, specifically lateral ankle sprains. There can be sprains of the outside of the ligament or excuse me the outside of the ankle or the inside of the ankle. It's more common to have a lateral ankle sprain and it's actually the most common injury in all of sports. So it's very important that we do the best we can to prevent that. There are ways you can do that be it with bracing and taping if someone's had a prior injury or with specific warm-up exercises and strengthening the foot and ankle to prevent an ankle sprain. But it's the most common sports injury so it's important that we do what we can to prevent that. A very common injury. There are 23,000 ankle sprains a day in the United States. So some of them need medical care. Some of them do well on their own but we're always happy to see people and help them sort of figure out exactly what treatment they need. Most go on to heal. 90% of the time ankle sprains will heal with some conservative treatment. We call it sometimes a brace, sometimes just some rest and ice, and then a physical therapy program. Sometimes it's home, sometimes it's a formal physical therapy program. 90% of the time it heals on its own. About 10% of the time folks develop something called lateral ligament instability, which is chronic, and that really is a can be problematic, can cause problems with the ankle in the long run and difficulty with walking on uneven ground. And so those are folks that we really need to take care of and sometimes needs a little bit more intervention. I do. So I work very closely with Dr. Clanton. We've had a great working relationship over the years and a lot over the last six months. He's a great mentor and I really enjoy working with him. We operate on some very complex cases together, so we do do that sometimes and certainly talk about patients regularly and get each other's opinion. I've had the opportunity to train with some other folks who are very well known within foot and ankle surgery. So it's been fun to share the ideas that I've learned and with him, and so we go back and forth quite a bit. Yeah, this is a very unique place. We can do a lot of research here. We have the ability to do that, which is part of what drew me here. And it's a very, very unique place to do research. We have sort of our everyday athletes, and then we have Olympic athletes. And we can study those patients when we learn certain things from the Olympic athletes that we can transfer to our sort of weekend warriors and our everyday folks. And it flows the other way as well. So it's a very unique place to do research, and we really appreciate that about it. Yeah, I find the foot and ankle to be a very important part of the body, not just because it's what I spend my days doing, but if you can't push off and you can't plant in a solid, meaningful fashion, you can't walk around, first of all, but you certainly can't compete in sports at a high level or get out and enjoy the mountains or whatever you like to do. So the foot and ankle is very important and we like to take care of it, first of all, and then treat the injuries in a concise and expedient fashion, but also do the best we can to get people back out there and be strong. Yeah, something when we talk about sort of care of the foot and ankle, it's important we often talk about stretching of the plantar fascia and also stretching of the Achilles tendon. And so it's important to work on those things over our lives. They tend to get a little tighter. So your plantar fascia will tighten up your Achilles tendon will get tighter. And so we do recommend just for folks who want to participate in sports that they work on those things daily to both work on both their plantar fascia and also their Achilles tendon, spend a couple of minutes stretching. It'll prevent foot and ankle injuries in the long run.