 Hey, I'm Rob Koch. I'm from slalom build. I'm a principal for the data engineering capability there and Platform engineering as well. John. Hi. My name is John Zola. I'm hearing but this is the first time I'm ever presenting and trying to sign at the same time. So we're gonna give this a shot So let's start with what is the deaf and hard of hearing working group. So we are a volunteer based CNCF Group we have people in the group that are that are deaf that have heart of hearing or some people that have Heart of hearing kids or family members. We also have people that are just allies We have a common goal to help the deaf and hard of hearing community to contribute to Maintain and become experts in Open source that is our goal and And this is the team. There's a lot of us up here in the front corner as well and There's more of us that weren't able to make it they weren't able to make it here today and you can see the blue lines are People that are deaf or hard of hearing and the pink outline are for people who are hearing So now you may be asking yourself why we need a deaf and hard of hearing working group I co-chair with destiny. She is here We are trying to promote diversity efforts within the corporate world or whatever you may be thinking about race gender Sexual orientation a lot of those diverse Diversification efforts are focused on that but we're trying to shift that focus to disability because oftentimes we are an afterthought so we are here to change that and people within the community like yourselves can help us drive that change and One of our members mentioned something of this nature that it's nothing about us without us the reason why this is important to me is because I've experienced many things over the years in tech and I also I've also experienced the hiring practices Getting interviews for example to go into various types of employment a lot of times that we are ignored And we can't get in to in the door in the first place. So I feel like we want to have You know, this is important to me to just to drive that for deaf and hard of hearing individuals and more accessibility With interpreters as well. So, you know realizing what we need to have for our communication access So our plan is really to educate all of you the community and help you help us We also would like to evangelize Where you can help with this effort and we'd like to empower deaf and hard of hearing people with this group here a Few of a few of the members as John mentioned are here So we'd like to make that more of an active cloud native open source community And we want to have more contributing members to contribute to open source We're here to educate, you know the open source community. We'd like to also meet some of you Mingle in the conference while we're all here over the next couple days and educate you on how we work and what is involved in our working group So feel free to ask us any questions come up and interact with us how to improve accessibility and all of those things and What the takeaway is really is? Priority, you know accessibility costs and having discussions about that how much it costs to provide particular Accessibility tools and then also the resources that we that we've identified. We've got those posted You can get things with get accessibility needs met within the conference So for all of you helping us We are talking about organizing accessibility for conference and event planning Project owners and CNCF volunteer groups and teams. We'd like to interact with the different groups here Your employers and share your stories. We're open for hiring. We're open for interacting and contributing Also include your co-workers and allies So how all of you can help us is really Approach any deaf or hard of hearing people and ask them about access Tell people how it works educate yourselves and others we have a community here and The conference organizers and everybody either small or large Employers and everybody we would like to contribute to open source projects So as always change starts with you