 Okay, hello everybody. Hello people out there in TV land. I'm going to do a really quick talk on the Open Hardware Diversity Alliance. It is an initiative with Western Digital Chips Alliance, an open power foundation that we launched about a week ago, and it is formed to help improve diversity numbers, help provide programs for the underrepresented individuals and women in Open Hardware. So this idea really came out of Western Digital, and from Marjan, who is the co-chair. So Marjan, if you're watching, thank you. The question we're trying to answer is, why are there so few, pardon me, women and underrepresented individuals in open source hardware? Is it because it's hard to navigate? Is career progression a mystery? Is there lack of visibility of talent? So as we envisioned this, we kept these questions in mind. So as I mentioned, we launched the Open Hardware Diversity Alliance about a week ago and with those four organizations. With our mission of bringing together those interested in open hardware, open source hardware projects and provide programs to help improve these diversity numbers and give encouragement to women and underrepresented people, actually everybody, because we are inclusive, we don't want to leave anybody out, but to provide support and programs for people to feel more included and to want to choose hardware as a career. I just went through this, how we're going to do it. We're looking at promoting, so looking at individuals and things they have done, making sure that it's promoted, help them promote themselves, look at encouraging them, giving them tools and resources to encourage them to take that next step in their career growth, empowering, making them feel really confident, helping people feel confident about what they're doing, and then facilitating by bringing individuals together to work together. So the way we structured this is we structured it with a leadership team, and we purposely launched this with just a few organizations because we wanted to make sure we could get it launched. I've gotten a lot of support since launching of people that want to join, and just think about if you've ever been on a project and you have maybe 10, 12 organizations trying to get something launched, I'm not sure everybody decided on green on the colors for the PowerPoint template. So we purposely launched small and we have a structure of two co-chairs and five advisory team members. Then we have what I'm calling streams, which will focus on a specific area and that stream would then develop those activities. So I'm going to try to put this up and I do realize this one is hard to read. We have what we call organizational streams, so looking for somebody who wants to help with metrics, for example, or be the marketing lead and do some communications, who wants to work on alliances, find those other organizations that want to partner and where we want to do things together to support what they're doing and have them support what we are doing. Then I'm going to drop to the bottom. We have program streams, and these are programs that we're looking to offer out to the community. So a learn program on topics, maybe how to get involved in a work group or how to balance that in-between generation, how to balance your kids and taking care of elder parents, for example. But we're looking to be providing resources, gathering those resources and help provide them out to the community. We have what we call a speak stream and that one is designed to help give individuals the confidence and knowledge to maybe submit the CFP, prepare them to speak in front of people. So that one is specifically for people that are interested in speaking in public. We have the mentor stream, a typical mentor, allyship, and sponsorship type programs. And not sponsor, like, give me money, like get a sponsor in an organization to help advance in that organization. We have a talk stream, which is all about inclusive language, communications. How can we be better at what we are communicating out into the community to encourage more participation? We have the recognized stream, I mentioned that a little earlier, and that is to help really elevate the accomplishments of individuals and then empower. Anything that somebody needs to really help empower, have themselves feel empowered in the community. So we're targeting organizations, people who wanna move up into the leadership area, contributors and students. And they're all important. The three after organizations are individuals. We wanna be targeting them for their individual goals. But then we also wanna target individuals and provide tools back to them. As I mentioned, we launched recently. We are, right now, this is our progress slide. We're adding organizations who wanna join in this project. As I mentioned, I've had a bunch of them reach out. We are capturing individuals who wanna participate and either participate in the programs or volunteer. And we are promoting this alliance, trying to get the word out at events such as this. We will be at Open Power Summit at the end of this month, Linux Foundation Member Summit in November, and Risk Five Summit in December. So my next steps, we will be assigning stream leads. And I will, and then kicking that off with those stream leads. And then we already have identified a webinar series, educational webinar series, that we will start that in January 2022. And as I had conversations this past week with people who wanted to volunteer, they've given me a lot of ideas of things that they wanna get started on right away. So I wanna make sure that we're not just launching this and it's something on paper, but that we're actually doing something. So we definitely have the webinar series going, but expect many more activities, tools, and resources. And with that, that's all I have for today. If you have questions, you can email info at diversityhardware.org. You can go out to diversityhardware.org, hit the join button. I believe it takes you to a Google form. And then we're gonna add you to a bunch of email lists and much more to come. So with that, any questions? Anybody wanna join? Who's joining? Kalista wants to join. Everybody say hi to Kalista. This was her brainchild as well. Yeah, so everybody who's out there watching virtually, go out there, hit the join button. Let's see what we get. Any questions? No? You have one, go ahead. What are my thoughts on the influences of diversity and hardware? So what's causing the lack of diversity? What's causing us to do the Alliance? Yes, you know, I don't know and that's something that, I mean, I have some ideas and I'll share some ideas on that. I don't know for certain what is causing that and that's where I wanna make sure we get that kind of expertise in the organization in this Alliance. People who do know and how to solve it. I think some of it is coming from student programs. It's coming in the elementary, high school type age groups where not everybody has access to work on open source hardware. So one of the ideas I have for risk five summit is one of our members, I haven't asked them yet. So James, if you're listening, I'm gonna be asking, one of our members has a doctor who hi-fi board targeted to kids. And so I was thinking of a Zoom meeting, having somebody facilitate a Zoom meeting and have a bunch of kids build out this core, this board and make the lights blink, for example. So I think that's one area. But other than that, thank you. Other than that, I'm not really sure. Do you have any ideas? Oh, go ahead, Kalista. Hey, Kalista, hold that. Hey, let me go ahead and repeat for the streaming audience and then we'll keep going, because I can only remember so much at once. As Kalista was mentioning, she feels that people aspire to be with and see people that look like them basically in a nutshell, correct? Did I get all that? And if they say something that resonates with you. Whether like where you're from, exactly. Whether you all like dogs, you like to be with people that are like you and then you were going to go on. And that is, thank you, Kalista. That's exactly what we wanna do, is this welcoming environment, introduce people to others in the community, networking is a big area, so that when you come to a conference such as this, you may not identify with any one person because there are no other Labrador lovers, maybe. But you know other people and you start building those relationships and connections so you do feel welcome. Thank you, good question. You gonna join? You wanna help? Yeah, so the comment from the audience, like what can this individual as a white man do to help? And we have Rob Mainz is on this committee with us from Chips Alliance. He's one of them who started that. I've actually charged him with the alleys. Let's build a really strong ally program because this isn't all about just having any one type of person that is not a white male for example because that's not solving the problem. But how do we help you be an ally? What are some tools? What are some actions that allies can do to support women and the underrepresented individuals in their careers and their efforts? So more coming on that. I wanna get Rob working on that or we have Rob continuous work on that. Yes. Yes, so the question that was are we accepting anybody in their college age and helping them with their decisions that they're trying to make? And coming back as you popped on in, which is fine. You're probably coming from Drew's talk. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, so one of our targets is students. Yeah, and looking at student programs. Danny who is not in this session, he's on our marketing committees. They do a lot of work with student programs in college and providing hardware. So he's gonna help us with the student targets and putting together, so the goal would be for Danny to put together like what has worked in the organization that he's working in and then offer this out to other people who want to put together student programs in their geography. So great, great question. Yeah, I know. Part of the work I'm doing, I'm a counsel for EDA and data for I could believe, trying to make a connection with the academic community, the professors, but also the students and have them be more present in open source as well. We figure we can help them build names, connect them with internship opportunities that he might be able to have more seasoned individuals coming out that might be better prepared to even accept jobs or positions that are just following on to their academic career. Absolutely, and he, I forgot your name. Huh? Ben. Dennis. Dennis, I'm sorry, Dennis. So Dennis for my triple E is talking about EDA programs. I'm a senior in CDA. Yeah. All right, I talked to you yesterday. This is my memory people. But Dennis is talking about EDA. Yeah, I know. Oh yeah, I remember I was trying to upsell you. Anyway, Dennis from Siemens and he's part of IEEE. He was talking about EDA programs for students. And so I definitely want to talk with you about that and have you and Danny working together. Like how can we collaborate? Cause you're right. It's not about building another RISC-5 chip or building an extension. It's about how, how can you get people to get their hands on hardware and use it and learn to love it. So, any other questions? In individuals, and that is part of the university that you don't want to lose. Mm-hmm. The one. The RISC-5 student chapters around the world and our focus is Asia, India and China because it's kind of an underserved technology area so that they're usually at a more disadvantaged or half of the toughest next world design assignment. So, the kind of focus that that moment right there. Yeah, so Kalisto's mentioning the one on one, keep the one on one and you have the student chapter. So, Dennis, yeah, definitely Danny's, Danny has a RISC-5 t-shirt on. So, and I'll make sure I introduce. Yeah, so I'd love for you two to start talking and see if we can be doing some student programs. Roll those out sooner rather than later. So, I'm excited. Anything else? Okay, thank you very much. People on TV, you get to go get a long break.