 Got it. All right. Well, welcome to the October community meeting, everybody. My name is Ethan. I'll part of the steering committee on behalf of the steering committee. I just want to say welcome to this community meeting. If you're here today or if you're watching this afterwards in recorded form excited that you're able to join us and tune in. Given that we have a little bit of a smaller group we're going to skip meant to me there today. And given that the conference is coming up in very short order. We're just going to jump right into some operational updates and organizational updates. So I'm going to go ahead and throw it over to Nicole for that. Absolutely. So, I guess, just for those who may be joining us for the first time, or listening to one of these recordings for the first time. The open education conference is supported this year and last year by a partnership of four organizations open stacks spark the university system of Maryland and Colorado department of higher ed. We have a dual focus this year on both organizing the open ed 21 conference which is coming up in just over a week, and also supporting a strategic planning process to chart the future of the conference. So, this meeting is being hosted by the conference is steering committee but there are many people involved in helping to make this conference success. So we have five standing committees program, DEI communications strategic planning and engagement. And then we also have over 100 people who have volunteered their time to support the program review process and hosting sessions during the conference. So, we very much have have worked to make this a community driven events. So, with that, oh, just quickly to address mentor where we won't be doing mentor today. So with that, I will turn it over to Isha for a quick update on where we are with the open ed 21 conference. Hey everyone. Just want to note that registration is still open in the conference is taking place October 183 22nd so almost a week away which is really exciting. In the last week before you the conference started through registration ratings gone up to. Most likely be filling, accepting the last scholarship applications at the end of next week so there is still a chance to apply and there is still a chance to register. And then also the schedule is live and if you are already registered you can go ahead and build your schedule and also view it. So, I'm so sorry that if you lost me my connections a bit wonky, but registration is open scholarships are still open. And you can also build your schedule and view it live. As you can see on the screen now. That's really exciting. And if you haven't browsed or scheduled yet there's a lot of great sessions. I really, really recommend for you to build your schedule ahead so you're not stuck on the first day of the conference looking for what you want to attend because there's so many great sessions. And yeah, the next thing up is update on the strategic planning process which I can go ahead and pass over to Hayley. Sure, thanks so much everyone. So this is just a very brief update. As you know sort of the last part in our process was the public consultation on our strategic vision, or draft strategic vision I should say rather. The meeting is nearly complete. We're very excited to say so we will have a lot more information to share with you at the conference when we sort of have the captive attention of the attendees. So very much looking forward to that I know we have the Friday plenary dedicated to a really robust sort of community conversation about the next steps in our planning process so do keep an eye out for that and we'd love to see you there. Yeah, in the meantime, just sort of hang tight for about one more week, and we'll be really excited to talk about next steps about what's, what's going to be held in the future of the conference so thanks everyone for supporting the process so far. And that's all for me. I guess next up we have just an open Q&A session so our first question is just what are people most looking forward to at this year's conference feel free to unmute or stick your answer in the chat. I can jump in first to get us started. One thing I'm really excited about is seeing the open ed conference kind of move really to like the bleeding edge of some of the conversations that the field is having around equity and representation but also like how we are interacting with other major social questions. So I've been really excited to see kind of all of the different sessions talking about that stuff. And I'm excited to attend as many of those as I can. I'm going to that Lisa. Yeah, I'm seeing some good stuff in the chat but I identify with the people of course from Wendy. Because I get to hang with y'all next week. Plus we have some pretty amazing sessions agree with that. I think one of the best parts about the open ed community is the people. So, a couple of the things that will be in the schedule to help support interaction among participants each day will start and end with what we call the early show and late show, which is a 25 minute session that provides preview to the day and a wrap up to the different guests will be invited each, each session and it'll provide space for people to just talk about you know which sessions are going to what they're interested in and promote more informal conversation. In program sessions, there will also be half hour breaks called tea time. There'll be activities programs by our colleague Lisa and the engagement team. During those sessions, everything from hanging out in discord to just general community discussions to doing some jigsaw puzzles together and things like that so the team worked really hard to put together a number of events that that would help support people to just unwind a little bit, like they'll be games like scribble Pictionary, which is actually something that I'm deeply passionate about and excited to participate in. And there will also be a few yoga sessions which is very popular last year so really looking to create space for people to connect and hang out with each other more informally just given that there, there isn't such thing as hallway conversations and virtual conferences. Any other suggestions or ideas there's a lot in the chat. People are excited about the. Oh, we are Yoki. We'll see what that's going to look like. Ethan is hosting among us which will be fun. Spencer is excited to reconnect. I think I'm really excited there's looks like there's a lot of great sessions that are very student oriented. So just sort of love that that's happening and can't wait to hear directly from them. I think they're super cool. We see, say more about that. Yeah, that's probably the session I'm most excited about is. So it was a little bit of Nicole's idea and then the engagement committee was lucky enough to, to be able to work out somebody to do this so since the conference would have been hosted in Maryland it was really important to sort of do an homage as, as it were. Absolutely not my idea. Well, so Nicole's half of the idea was, we need to do something to represent that the conference would have been in Maryland, and crab cakes in Maryland blue crab is huge obviously in Maryland. So we were lucky enough to find a professional chef who was going to do a crab cake cooking demonstration on Monday and then talk about technique. Talk about anything related to Maryland just chatting about food in general so I think that'll be a nice little, yeah, vegan crab we can ask him about that too he seems very to cause like absolutely not. I yeah I can't imagine it be very tasty but that's one of the very fun evening events that we have planned. I will be watching that recording because I have class on Monday night, but I'm also very excited about that. And I have nothing against crabs, I just prefer not to eat it. You don't like your food to have eyes. I get you. And I also don't like invitation food with eyes. It's going to be fun. And yes, I believe actually the professional chef is a culinary educator at one of the Maryland institutions that are part of the university system hosting the conference so, although we can't actually partake in the food that we would have been eating had we been in Maryland this year. Hopefully it'll be a fun way to connect. So, any other just sessions you've seen on my agenda that anybody's excited about that you'd like to point out hearing none. I think we can move forward to the next part of this meeting which is just a reminder, some reminders and wrapping up. I'm not sure who was assigned that. So I can do it. Our next community meeting will be on November 12, which is after the conference. So this organizing team will be transitioning out at the end of the year. But we committed to continue holding open public meetings and will continue to do so for the rest of the year. So the next meeting will be an opportunity to debrief the conference and all the things that happen there. So that information is up on our website. And then we also have, we will be putting out a lot of stuff on our social media accounts over the next week about how to prepare for the conference. So please follow us at hay open ed and also watch your email for just invitations to discord and an attendee guide and everything you need to do to prepare for the conference in a little bit over a week. So with that, anything anybody else would like to add before we stop. Thumbs up. Fantastic. Thank you. Thank you for coming and we will see you October a deep.