[Music] hello of the internet and welcome to another episode of opens lost directions
the webinar that brings you all of your favorite news about your favorite open source projects my name is Henry berry
and I’ll be your host for this episode and joining me as the co-host is hi I’m
David Charvet now and I’m excited to be the co-host for this episode of open source directions I leave the
development of open team said Kwan site and I’m based in Durham North Carolina
hi I’m Patrick McFadden I work at data stacks and developer relations and I
also work in the Apache Cassandra project as a contributor community organizer etc hi I’m Amanda brother I’m
here in London where I’m Sierra weapon UK I work in a bunch of different roles and open source with folk invention
network erases the United Nations technology innovation labs and a few others awesome well let’s get into it
we’re gonna start off with our famous tweet of the week section where each of our panelists are going to give their
favorite tweet recently so I am a nerd you want to kick it off for us yeah um I
guess I was gonna mention my own tweet which seemed a bit wrong I tweeted this
week on a an article at Wrigley for information age here in the UK and in
that article I was talking about the Kobe tracking tres apps and it’s the
whole Twitter thing is relatively new to me I’m not a big fan started tweeting by six months ago and I guess that’s my
best tweet ever so I was going to talk about that but it’s it’s not the best
thing to talk about your own right so I’m gonna give you an Shafto suite and
Adam created this it’s soo I have been writing reviews for about 10 years
my wife’s review of alien everything I’ve ever written to Shane alien is a
movie where nobody listens to the stock woman and then they all died except for the smart woman and her cat
four stars so that you got guys that’s my favorite for me mine my using escape
and on and off for many years and and I was absolutely surprised when I saw the tweet come through on may the 4th that Inkscape that hit
1.0 so if if you’re looking for an open source SVG editor Inkscape is pretty
wonderful and in fact it’s been around for a long time so I highly recommend it
well mine is a little more angled to those of you dealing with homeschooling right now and this actually this is a
more this is a little more ubiquitous to anyone who deals with trying to grade or
help their kids with school so this was this is one accidentally wrote
henceforth in an answer on my third grader social study quiz and the teacher
is suspicious I personally relate to that because I you know I I’ve gone
through helping Mike I my son sixth grade and then I’m like well and then I treat it like an editor and I’m like
that is probably a bad idea my tweet for
the week obviously everyone’s already saying it but I was wanted to share it in Elon Musk’s reveal of his baby’s name
which I thought was a very very crazy I’ve never seen anything like that before and actually bit present that is
that are you allowed to have numbers in someone’s name is that Leah I’ve been
reading that the state of California folks have been a pining that it doesn’t meet the code and that if they try to
put that in the birth certificate it will get rejected I would think the Greek letter would be the harder one
because Brian started off with the X and the nationís X ash and then
Elon sedition was the age role it’s crappy I actually thought the bitly link was part of the name and then I realized
no no no that’s just me my sauce when
your dad means you have to the back of his router well thank you very much for
sharing your tweet of the week that’s always an interesting setting to see what people have been looking at and sharing around and now we’re going to
give a introduction to the project and we’re going to hear about open Tetris Ponce so open tech response is the hub
the information sharing and coordination between open source projects responding to an emergency
or across the situation so I’m interested in learning more about the back story of this great initiative how
did we come up how did you come up with the idea and who was involved it’s
really interesting Henry you mentioned open source there and we try to use the term open technology which is something
that opened UK is focused on for a little while I think we’re probably the first group that’s moved from being purely open
source groups and open technology group bringing that there’s a hardware and DISA elements all together and I think
that’s really critical for what we’re doing here in the UK but also for open tech response I was in a call with
Denise Cooper and Jacob green and a few others and we just got into the phase
before locked and everybody waiting to find out one we were going to be locked down in the respective countries and
towards the very end of the call somebody said you know hey I’ve seen a project creating ventilators opensource
ventilators in Italy and somebody else did see one in Chile somebody else a new one in the UK and we realised that we
were all in different news groups maybe less whatever where we were constantly seeing these great projects coming up
and the kind of response that you’d really expect from New York resource folk right everybody wanting to help everybody wanting to be involved
everybody wanted to do something now and nobody could and running off and doing that which was great but we’ve realized
there were all these silos all over the world because this is really a global problem right and we’ve not dealt with
so many problems there so clearly global for us to respond to at the same time so
we saw these silos and we thought it’d be a great idea just to create a space for people to find each other we weren’t
sure exactly how will you do that but we need to start with slack so Jacob green who’s at Moss labs which is a it’s a
John Hopkins incubator startup and of course Hopkins on the dashboard which
everybody’s come to accept as a substandard for tracking in all the data
and analysis analytic storage whatever around the whole covert movement so
Jacob came up with it’s one up the slack space for us and I started to reach out to people and I
guess within a week we had about 150 people so my background is that I’m ex
lawyer so I know a lot of the people who do the governance who do the infrastructure at the community site and
this organization around open-source and what we find was that they all related
to the same issue right so they all saw this problem of silos and wanted to join something to help fix that somebody who
I was speaking to about doing some PR for us introduced me to Patrick and Patrick immediately suggested that when
we built something out we needed to keep me on covert we needed to think about the future and any other emergency
disaster pandemic we need a similar interaction or space for us all to
interact and get together in a space with the tools kinds of tools so that
that model would be repeatable and scalable which was entirely Danica
Patrick but that sort of fits with the way open projects grow right then what
people you sleep to the more different elements come into it I suppose really that the overall goal was just to bring
people together Henry it sounds like there’s been a lot of great people
involved so far how was everything grown since you started the initiative green
organically actually I think my favorite story is that a lady lives a few houses
down for me is on a whatsapp group but mutual assessment and she’s a graphic designer
so she’s designed the middle logo and the banner for us and it’s that sort of community pulling together people you
wouldn’t normally expect new world and wealth and all sorts of things right now but what we’ve seen is a you know I
approached you guys a token teams because I knew Henry and I spoke in town a few times to top-right databases
Patrick’s obviously a big expert in databases so started to talk to him
because it seemed wherever we looked we could seem repos with some of the projects that
everything wasn’t in one place there wasn’t an obvious spot for all the projects to Tractor to be fine
or if he wanted to volunteer there wasn’t an obvious place for you to go we’ve just seen more people get involved
fantastic so yeah just when I think about this it sounds like the real true value from this is that you’re collecting people
and projects is that the value do you think I think there are two values the
first value is definitely not collection of people in projects that bringing people together and information and then
I think the second is the tools that undermine to that end what technologies
and tools are being put together as part of the open tech response story well I
mean this is a big part of it is is what do we do with the data right and but the
first step of any database is collecting data and of course you know this is one
of the discussions that Amanda and I had and that was one that was the first conversation we had she’s like we need to collect all the data and and I agree
we do the the problem and what
technologies need to be involved kind of address the problem you know and this is what a man and I were talking about is
is there more to there’s more trouble there’s an inertia about starting up anything right so you know anytime
there’s a problem in the world you know there’s this lag time like okay we got to go through the initial shock and then
there’s the then they oh now I want to do something unless you’re a first responder there’s inertia and the reason first
responders work really well is because they’re pre ready they’re trained and they’re connected right and you know if
you think about like what we’re trying to do here we need to have the technology to put things together and
you know and I appreciate what open teams is brought to this you guys already have it really really well built
system to do those kind of things like connecting open-source projects with people who are doing them
but this is you know just a simple this doesn’t have to be really complicated a simple way to collect people and
projects it’s just in the web form but a way to store that data and I think
they’re critical partners that it’s that data is now open or will always be open and and that opens up a lot of chances
for other people to do stuff with it but just a very simple thing like that and
then the secret sauce is matchmaking I have skills I need you know and you
think it like this is this is always a problem I find in an emergency is we
have a lot of really capable people and they feel helpless because they’re like well what do I do with my skills well
there is you know you can take it like during the fires in Australia or an
earthquake or a tsunami or something like that like well I have awesome react.js skills how’s that gonna help
but it can and if you can and if there’s a product that is like hey we’re building something and we we sure could
use front-end developers well that could just that could end up not happening because they just don’t know how to
connect with each other so you know if you think of the technology the secret is the secret sauce is connecting those
people and saying hey you you’ve got a need you’ve got a skill talk to each
other go and that’s it it open teams we’ve really been excited to be a part
of this and then have been invited to participate and wholeheartedly agree
with the overall vision and then I’m really excited at the at the future or for the future prospects sure yeah very
exciting I think there’s no better change really just tackle it like the open-source community I think one thing
it’s really touched me what you said Patrick was the fact that who if sometimes the programming skills happen they help with something that’s coded
like a physical how can I help with something that’s so physical and I think this is a great great initiative to all
the contributors out there know that you’re gonna have to be sitting on your bottom at home doing nothing like you can join this fight you can become a
part of and you can make a difference and that’s what’s really exciting about this so now we anyone’s gonna add I
think this is the is where you know technology has a bad rap for a lot of reasons but technology
can also have a really positive influence on society if applied correctly and I’m really glad that we
were able to talk about it at this level you know we could go somewhere
completely different you know we talked about tracking applications and things like that personal privacy and those are
you know there’s some dark side to data and connecting people but there’s also a positive side this is a huge there’s
seven billion people in the world how do you connect that many people in this is
a huge technology problem it’s definitely a technical problem the
technology problem so now we’re going to demo a few of the cool tools which are being put together and set up for open
tech response it’s including some of the new features that have been added to open teams to support the effort so while we’re
getting ready I would like to take this opportunity to thank our sponsor Quan site the sponsoring this episode of open
source directions Quan site creating value from data so David when you’re ready do you want to take it away I’m
ready so I just wanted to highlight some of the tools that have been thrown
together and Andy also issues and thank yous to folks that that man made
resources available to us first off is we’ve got the slack for open tech
response we can see there’s a set of different channels that are have been pretty active I’ve got a lot of unread
messages that I’ve got to get through and it seems like every day there’s a lot of discussion going on so I want to
encourage people to after the show follow the links and join the chat and and find out what’s going on in addition
to that some folks don’t necessarily want to use slack they would prefer an open-source alternative so we’ve begun
establishing that open source alternative here I’m showing the riot client for the matrix chat software and
in protocol and we’ve actually established three connections to the
slack room so that we’ve got bi-directional communication so if you’d rather use matrix as the way of interacting with open tech response
you can and will be filling in more of these channels I you know I say we I’ll
probably be building those connections over the weekend but this is for immediate response and discussion we
also recognize that there’s a need to build a knowledge base and host more
long-form discussion and discourse was really super kind and grant gave us a
free instance that we can use for that building that knowledge base and having
that long form discussion I’ve seeded it with a little bit but I’m excited to see
what content that we can get in here and into the into the discourse and see
whether with conversation goes and another part of what what we think you know if you’re building them on a
knowledge base that’s because people have questions and you know it’s truck struck us that if there’s a question
that you have about integrating set up open source technologies or applying them to a particular problem you know if
it’s an integration problem it’s not clear who you talk to or what project you go to so we built a helpdesk as a
kind of catch-all so in an emergency situation if you’ve got a question you
can go to the open tech response help desk that was kindly provided by help
eio again this is another open source product and they are donating server
resources to host our helpdesk if you have a question or how to how to apply a
particular technology to solve a problem the open tech response helpdesk is there for you this is integrated into our slab
channels we’re working through you know what the process is gonna be but the idea is come here an extra question open
tech response we’ll try to find a way to answer that question and get you connected with the right people then
finally what Patrick mentioned earlier was that need for matchmaking and on
open teams we’ve built a social network that has 15,000 developers that use and
contribute to open source software and still growing every day we’ve got a lot of projects and we need
to add more of them into the site so it’s a great opportunity to provide that matchmaking if a project has
NEADS we’ve got folks with skills profiles and we can do the matching so we are we’re working with OPA tech
response to kind of define what the data we need to capture is and provide user
interfaces to support that as we scroll down there’s currently two things you can do that I’d like to show off the
first of them is that you can volunteer to join the response team and what that
will do is it’ll add like a little raised hand on to your profile indicating that you’re available to
volunteer in response to this global event one thing I also want to say is that this isn’t specific it’s we have
capability specific to Coba 19 here but we’ve actually bolted so that we’re ready for the next emergency as well and
we’ve got more work to do there but we’re hoping to kind of grow this capability in a platform from the future
so that we can be a part of this open source communities readiness to respond
in addition to that we’ve got the call for volunteers so if you are a project or a company or an organization that’s
looking for volunteers right now if you click this link it’ll take you to a Google Form we’ve actually got the
database set up we’re just working on the front end so in the meantime we’re gonna do manual data entry to the extent
that we need to and within a week or two I’m hoping that we will have some user interface support for issuing a call for
volunteers directly within the open teams application now once somebody has
volunteered we can actually search for them but I’m gonna have to sign in to do the search so let me do that real quick
here so if I want to find people who are
ready to volunteer for responding to the cogut 19 crisis I can come here and
select Kovac 19 and I can just hit apply I did this yesterday and I was really
surprised because I didn’t think anybody would have raised their hand mm-hmm I have no idea how many people yeah so
we’ve already got folks and this is with very little promotion folks who are raising their hand and saying they’d
like to participate in responding to the crisis and if we go ahead and add a
skill here you can see oh okay it’s there’s nobody
folks let’s add like one that I know
it’s got to be in their rest at some
credit I haven’t seen that before that’s incredibly exciting to see all of those people with that as actually announcing
launching yeah the only duration actually the here’s the promotion I did
and oh wait this is not me we’ll have to look I’m logged in as my demo user so I
did post something on open team I do have a lot of people followers but David
I know really real yeah that’s good oh
and I forgot to show that you know when I did the search earlier you do get that
special little hand that’s on your profile so let’s go ahead and do the search real quick again oh you know what
I wonder if I’ve got a caching issue well live demos I’m you will get a
special hand on your profile I will fix that it’s indicate that you volunteered now
where we’re going with this in the future right now if you go to a projects profile and I’m just gonna pick one at
random if you’re the project leader we’re gonna add some capability into
these profiles so that you can directly issue a call for volunteers from your projects profile page and when you come
back you’ll actually have some special tools so that rather than having to go through the search you’ll just be able
to eat select a particular volunteer opportunity and say show me the matches and it’ll show you the people that have
the skills that match your call for volunteers that’s it
that’s great it seems like we’ve got a little bit of everything for the slack the discourse functionality matching on
open teams I am interested in learning what drives technology choices for pantech response I think
essentially it’s the right use the right solution to bring people together so
obviously we’re all about open tack we want things to be as open as they can be
in an open data I mean open in my opinion is that that’s when we talk
about open sourcing ideas you know there’s the open source projects which
are fantastic I’m obviously I’m involved in Apache Cassandra but open data can be
just as important in that way I mean Amanda works with open data and
UK government and it’s important you know that’s important because these are your taxes are at work here and that’s a
different problem but if you think about trusting as well I think in terms of
like what open tech response can do is that data this is not personal information this is information that we
want to amplify and opening it gives us more of an opportunity for this to turn
into something really important you know I love implementations you know when I
see open datasets and I see what people do with visualizations or with applications it’s really fascinating
like in San Francisco’s this the city opened up its data set for for the
police department and people were building some really cool implementations on top of it like here
here’s some information like don’t Park here because there’s a lot of break-ins you know we pretty much named Cisco but
park in Oakland but I mean it’s it’s like you don’t know what people are
gonna do until you let it go free like that and I think just to see what what
will happen in the future but right now we need to get people involved yeah and
I’m excited to start up so one of the things that we’re gonna be doing in the coming weeks is putting out a
specification for what what does a call for volunteers as a resource look like
what does a volunteer profile look like and then come up with
protocols around how do you publish these so that sites like open teams can aggregate it and and put their
perspective on it so you know right now we’ve built a tool where you can sign up and volunteer through open teams but we
want to open that up and federated so that we’re pursuing more of an open data open protocol approach mm-hmm and that
all be published on github well I think
it’s been great to learn yeah how this project started about the technology underlying it and what’s going to drive
it so I’d like to talk more about how the projects going at the moment and where it’s heading so another hat-trick
what have people been doing so far as part of Open Text was a lot of the list
of initial interaction is you would expect just need to be finding each other so starting with the slack and
riot spaces working out who’s around bringing projects they’re working on in
introducing it and then sort of shouting out but what they’re doing and finding other students similar projects find
some ideas off each other we’ve had people looking for help so people who
are building for example medical products which would normally need disclaimer and deal with all the legal
stuff so we’ve been sending them off to be pull for a licensing and some of the legal help a lot of interactions with
people sharing things that would maybe get lost otherwise seen quite a lot
coming through from people like Andy at Yahoo you know just sharing information that trickles across our group and then
it trickles across all of their networks which is just quite incredible that’s
great what do you see is coming next rope and tech response well we have as
you mentioned there’s there’s some elements like the github repo that needs to be put together and I think there
that would be a great place for threw balls on things like data specs things
like that and they never say actually Patrick that they’ve all fit that up to
us as well so they’ve sponsored that space and donated it to us with the support
it is and this is such a typical thing than inside of these these type of projects is like again
Amanda acting as the matchmaker here is like finding people who are willing to help but don’t know where to help okay
here’s the thing and you just get this draw there’s a pull really people like yeah I wanna help that’s that’s I can help there and
finding people with that kind of energy is like me should not be Amanda’s job we could’ve play technology yeah I think
I really it’s it’s you know if you’re if you’re a project that is looking for people to help out or you want to
advertise your what you’re doing this is the time to start getting involved I mean this is your Avenue to potentially
getting a lot more eyeballs in your eye and like on your project and you know
this is that I think that’s what’s gonna bring people like detected the technologists people who know how to do
things and it’s not just software it’s hardware it’s you know open open
hardware specs are yes it’s big parties like kovat is like look at the ventilator projects these are people who
know how to do embedded systems and and mechatronics and things like that I mean and these are all open specs as well so
it’s not not just software as much they love to talk about software and governance to look at what Amanda does
that’s a navigating all of the potential potholes of working with governments and
NGOs and things like that it takes expertise and volunteer and that brings up a critical point that I forgot to
make that I intended to which is that there’s all sorts of contributions and while my demo pointed out skills like
new J s skills like legal wrangling in
the UK or in the EU documentation editing and writing
testing any of these security you know any and every skill that you can imagine
has has an implicit application in this students situation yeah and David while
working passing things we forgot to mention we should also talk about open science because open UK doesn’t include
open science in our definition of open technology I forget I reckon by the end of the year we will
be including it but for this project there’s a huge amount of open science and we we have a lot of people from that
community already inside Channel yeah absolutely yep
and that that term open technology I don’t know that I’ve heard it before but it’s been ringing in my ears since you
mentioned it earlier I like that term a lot it feels very aligned with what
we’ve been trying to do here well it’s inclusive yeah the world yes
software is eating the world and that’s great but the open technology I think
you look at people like bunny weighing you know who is really big on the open hardware specs and just look at what
like companies like Adafruit are doing I am really impressed with with that
little company and Lady ADA and all the people that work there I mean they have a for-profit company for sure they sell
like prod they sell products but everything is open and they have been really instrumental and a lot of things
that are happening inside like right now with Coppa 19 epidemic but hardware is
available making these things possible exactly I’ve been watching their their Sunday night live streams and it’s just
just amazing so I mean yeah everything counts right yeah that’s great I just
look at you remind anyone who’s listening and tuning in feel free to ask any questions I will be answering them
very soon but we’ll find out more about this project so how can people get
involved in open tech responsible for this great initiative so we should we
should share this we should definitely share those afterwards then the landing page last website should be
launched next week and we are looking for volunteers factory do you want to talk about the bull juice well I mean in
particular getting you mean for the project side yeah absolutely yeah well
we well we especially need to have project signing up right now I think
that’s what you’re talking about yeah and do we have a we have a URL for that and we should be providing that right
away we need to get as many projects as possible in there to create a critical mass like I said to get a draw going
that that’s what’s gonna bring people to us you know yeah and what we will do a
shout out in the next week is so looking I suppose with some press for projects
that would like some volunteering to step forward so that we can arrange this matchmaking for them probably in half a
dozen to really test and I don’t we see if David’s come up trumps it will yeah
this is a good opportunity if you have a project that is in the need in need of help this will be a good opportunity
opportunity to amplify it because we want to promote those projects especially because we’re trying to get
more people that can do technology of any kind involved and of course what’s
going to get people involved there’s like seeing projects that speak to them there’s some personal aspect to it like
this is something I want to do and I see it now okay I can go maybe there’s more
than one but it seems like a lot of people have time on their hands right yeah any in any case I think just
finding a critical mass of projects that make people want to be involved is really important yeah I guess architect
responds calm running very shortly and I think they’ve just shared in that
project needs form the little banner that’s been made into a widget wrote to
share on their social media where on the website I’m supporting up in tech response to help spread the word and
I’ll share my screen real quick again just to show that page so here’s the
form that if you are a a project that’s looking for volunteers
that link that I dropped into the chat will take you directly here where you can fill in the form and we will get
your data into the database I had open teams and and will be able to provide
you matches when you visit your projects profile yeah this is the critical thing
we need to get done I don’t think we’re gonna have any lack of projects okay
great well this isn’t the last crisis obviously but we are going to experience
we’re renaming him Henry doomsayer the
thing we’re missing or the coming crisis of on 10 be ready for that next process
well I guess we’ve got everything in place well know these tools oh yeah
it’s it’s a reduction of inertia that you know it’s the the inertial mass that
we’re trying to reduce and it’s the bad thing happening project created people
wanting to be involved you know off and then conduct connectiveness between that you know all those all that has time and
there is an inertia that has to happen I think of every other you know I’ve been involved in plenty of you know from
fires tears the tacks and you know pandemics I mean it happens but there’s
always you know there’s a flow and instead of having I think a success factor that we could measure is instead
of taking weeks to see things start to pick up measured and days like and just
immediately like this and where we could turn people in our technology
communities into almost like first responders like it was the volunteer
fire department which is I think analogy that I think about is people that are at the ready but whenever the bell rings
they can run and we have when we connect it right away that’s great that’s really
good well thank you very much for that and we’re going to get on to answering some questions from the audience so the
first question is from Guy Martin hi guy Amanda can you talk more about where you
see the role open standards in this space obviously standards take along with an open source but but it’s very
prepared for the next emergency it probably makes sense to coalesce on necessary standards to make
interoperability a key component well guy you should be answering this
not me so I don’t know whether you guys all know guy he is the executive
director of Asus the Oasis standards project hasn’t been there very long congratulations on the new regard yes I
work with them on their open projects and their advisory board there it’s
going to be important isn’t it but I think that the difficulty is you say what standards as it takes tiny and who
knows where I’m gonna get to at the moment it’s hard to know six weeks two months ahead let alone the length of
time it takes from the standards in place so I think that they’re important but I think we will also end up with de
facto standards and it’s probably a really good moment for Oasis open projects to pick up some of the code
that sounded some of the ventilator respirator type things that need to be done guy you should definitely bring
that into the discussion on the slack channels that we don’t get too mired in
the bureaucracy of something like this either you know I think the standards that we need to establish our you know
in the aspects of sharing so that you know we have I think of it more as prescriptive
contracts like if you’re going to use this data this is what it looks like a
lot less about the governance which in this kind of yeah you know Patrick so
something using a lawyer for 25 years I no longer practice law but who worked in that area for 25 years it’s really
important to me that we haven’t tied this project down in any way we would like it to slowly grow and down it clean
see where it went was a community project and when we do need to do in return the government sue will but that
could be quite a long way away and if you look tecnológico but it’s change things so if you look at the the UK just
as the example I happen to know the government has offered an indemnity against intellectual property and some
of the medical negligence type risks that you would normally have to help
people to free them up and to allow you to build this stuff and not being restricted and I think that’s what
Patrick’s heading to this is a very specific very particular time so you know we don’t know what’s gonna happen six weeks two months ahead we really
have to be flexible I’m not like I’m like okay next question
what are some of the interesting use cases that you have seen for open tech response I don’t think we’ve really seen
that many yet and that’s but I think the
use cases applied right now in my mind is that we got everyone nodding their head that this is a long-term problem no
one is like this is a one and done Oh once we have a vaccine we’ll just fold up our tents and go home no there’s
gonna be no one there people I don’t
know or I’ve never come across before who involved in this or slack a
communications piece and it’s that an amazing thing that happens of communities wherever binos something
brings those people together and you’ve got a chap called Chris maximun if he works and NASA’s I’m just reading this
jet propulsion tree and uh Chris was sharing they’ve
got two deer aspirators that you can print so it’s open hardware and he was
sharing in a slack channel and I pass it on to some people I know in the UK they’ve been printing them in their
garage and it’s just it’s interesting to see that kind of thing and then some of the siren folk have been involved as
well talking about the Cerner Hardware license I guess for me that’s quite an
interesting learning curve because it’s not Hardware isn’t like my back normally or throw open UK’s getting more involved
with it it’s a learning curve and I think those projects and we come on we didn’t with star in enough said are
super cool right that’s amazing it’s fantastic awesome US government’s next and then so
thanks very much for that we’re now going to get to our famous rants and raves section where we’re all going to
be given fifteen seconds to take the light take a stage and have a soapbox so
let’s go Amanda do you wanna give it a rat or a first can I do a little one of
each yeah I’ve done relates it so for me
I cannot stand people when I go out do not know how to socially distance and you walk up behind you it really really
annoys me jogging you know and they haven’t got the proper working gear on
and they’re sweating and running plastic clothes not happy about it that’s all at
the same time there’s a lot of time thing the kindness of people you didn’t
know so I’ve been working with Sonya Lincoln data from Microsoft I had a call with
her and it turns out we lived like a hundred yards apart which we would never have known for me to not talked about a
lot day and she’s a car which I don’t so she brought some things from my new kitchen at the pet store the big pet
store in the city so yeah that’s my thing yeah the good stuff that comes up
a lot that’s lovely Patrick you want to take the stage easy
there’s so my background in my background I have a lot of head tech I worked in higher education for
years and in k-12 in the u.s. with
various organizations data organizations so this is kind of a passion thing for
me is like I’m kind of done having education via the bottom rung always and
if it’s not readily apparent to the entire planet at this point that education is really at the back of
everyone’s mind and look at what happened as soon as we shut down the schools pure Cass I mean I mentioned
that tweet earlier which is funny but not funny because now sudden pants are
realizing oh this school thing is hard but we haven’t enabled and I this is
what I worry about we haven’t enabled the digital divide at all we we haven’t
we have an enormous amount of technology that helps us buy one more piece of but does not help kids get to the next
level and it’s amazing to me that we’re sitting here in the 21st century 2020
and I can’t even if in our local school district they were asking for donations
of technology like a Chromebook I’m like how is that even but raves I will say
there are some great groups that are coming to the forefront now that are like okay how can we fix this not just
big tech companies but smaller ones is to like our our local Internet service provider sonic you know they’re starting
to put free Wi-Fi hotspots out for kids I hope this is a this is a thing that
happens now it’s just like this is it this is a demarcation point we are not
going to do the same thing after this I really hope that but there you go my rant and rave education co-team I’m
gonna rave I rant no no rave today Neal Stephenson in one of his novels he read with a
why and and made it into a scientific discipline a thing to be studied and
combated in one of his novels and and I think that needs to be more real one of
the problems that we’ve had in the past couple of my says you’re just a flood of disinformation or bad information and
rumors conspiracy theories and I think we need a better engineered response to this and we need to treat research into
fighting as a necessary scientific and engineering endeavor
perhaps actually race and race I would quickly actually might be a bit of a right right but it started off as rant
I recently quit coffee and have been doing a diet basically reset my health went to the doctor and recommended I do
that to see what foods eat good and bad for me and so I’ve had to cut out coffee and I didn’t realize how difficult that
would be and how dependent I was on it so that’s my rant but then today for the
first time I tried it a green tea and I think I could get used to it so maybe it’s a bit of a rave but thank
you everyone thanks for your time thank you all for watching that is all we have time for today sadly and you can find us
on twitter at open teens ink and quan site AI so a matter of patrick where can
people find you and open tech response and what is your call to action I’ll let
you go first Amanda sure oh do you want me to go first so if you look from early
next week on open tech response comm you will find us there I’m UK Amanda Brock
UK and also you’ll find us on response open on Twitter and I’m on the Twitter’s
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so you could find me my main my name is ben de vida we’re also include all the
links down in the chat below so you can find a mentor e to the discourse the slack and everything alright so for
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you I spent Patrick and we approached you guys a month ago yeah time with
Simon isn’t like that yeah exactly right now but the work you guys have done to
spin this up for is fantastic I know Patrick agrees it would have taken a long long time for us to go out and
start to build this from scratch wherever we did it so thank you very much for your contributions it’s really
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