 We'll kind of run through this really quickly. Call for Code is a huge endeavor, which really seeks to align technology with some of society's most pressing issues, whether it's around natural disasters, climate change, COVID-19, which has really been affecting us for the past, I think about like a year and a half and probably in a couple more years. And then Call for Code for International Justice, which originated as a spot challenge. So something that's really requires an immediate response through Call for Code. And but it has since evolved since then. And Call for Code was really originated and founded by David Park-Haas. And as kind of like the technology guru's IBM is really helping to take the solutions to the forefront and connecting them with the communities that really need it. So kind of how we got here, this was actually done in partnership with Red Hat where we were able to have 500 volunteers across the globe contributing to this project. Last year, June 10th is when it kicked off of 2020. And since then, we've been able to really focus on using open source technologies to help build up the solutions. And then even if we're talking about being able to continue to have the right type of supports, being able to have developers access, IBM technology, other open source technology in order to refine and continue to build out these solutions for our potential partners who want to use these as their ways of working. And I've also just listed other types of resources and impact that we've had internally in the company and what we're also looking to do externally. So kind of given perspective on where we are today, there are lots more happening. Love to share a little bit more of that on within our channel. And we will share a little bit more about that towards the end. But providing additional context, it's a Call for Code for Show Justice. Again, that was originally a spot challenge. It was in response to some of the violence that we were seeing specifically against black people with over-policing and IBMers really wanted to have a vehicle to express their frustration. And that really capitalized on how are we able to use the skillsets that we have right now in order to have this vision of accessibility, humanity and opportunities within communities that really need it. And with the lens that systemic racism sometimes really is ingrained in a lot of the systems that exist to serve people. So with that lens, we developed these three pillars wherein all of our solutions fall in right now. Police and judicial reform and accountability, diverse representation and policy and legislation reform. And again, you know, five fifths voter that we're diving into today falls under the policy and legislation reform pillar. So now going into a little bit of a solution, I'm not gonna talk as much. I'm just kind of like setting the groundwork for the amazing team that work on this project. So, you know, really launch it off to share with you how we got here and you know, what's coming forward and how folks can get involved. Want to just give a little bit of context because again, we're dealing with a little more global audience. Want to set the stage on how does policy and legislation work within the US providing some kind of simple understanding of where we are coming from and we want voters to share their voices around policy and this type of work. So legislation of course being the proposed law that will essentially become law, law of the land and it's passed by a legislator. So folks that you actually vote for to get into those positions and then we have our executive branch which signed it into law and then policy which are the actions and standards set by that executive branch and then we are able to follow that law. So that's really like the flow that we end up going with here in the States but what really ends up happening is that the executive branch as well as the legislator are folks that we are able to affect them being there. So when we're looking at why is this important from a voting standpoint? It's like if I can't even vote for the folks who are passing laws, regulations, legislation in the country or even in my state then I'm not able to articulate what my desires and what my wills are and really throw balance off for communities that may be vulnerable. And then next slide. So in expanding for this solution what could policy and legislation reform look like? From again the lens of the call for co-operative justice and looking at Five Fifths Voter is like how can we really explore technology to analyze, inform and develop policies around areas that are important to us in a meaningful way? And Five Fifths Voter really is focused on how can we inform people of the ways in which they can start to affect change through their voice, through their vote for the industries that will be affecting them. And it really is like power is in the hands of the voter because you determine or you have a really, really strong influence on what legislators are creating and passing because that's your right as a voter and being able to see if something is going to affect you positively or negatively being able to share that through your vote. And ultimately we really wanna focus on ensuring that citizens, specifically folks who have typically been disenfranchised from voting and we're gonna share a little bit more about that for them in the presentation just like on the timeline of where voter suppression and oppression has happened and why we really wanna focus on those groups because accessibility has not really caught up to speed for them. And so this solution is really gonna focus on why they should vote and how to vote through our accessible tool. And through last kind of statement that I'm gonna say before handing this off to Alexandria is that the problem that five face voters really addressing is that voting can be impossible and challenging or challenging due to burdensome local processes, change of requirements to regulations and lack of information to voters. And there are also roadblocks that exist when it talks about not being able to qualify to vote when you have voter purging that happens unbeknownst to you you find out that you're not registered or that you have to register because you moved you don't have the correct form of ID. You have to, you know you've missed deadlines for registering there just to know how that roadblocks that really exist around voters who are either super busy, you know burdened with, you know some of them were systemic issues that we're seeing within communities of color. I really wanted to drive home that awareness is sometimes, you know kind of the one of the biggest issues as well where if there are changes they may not be the community that first hears about it or having access or knowing where to go to find that information about it is a problem. And then we're talking about even accessibility for people who are differently abled. How can we ensure that they are still able to articulate themselves and have a way to vote, you know in any election that they choose to participate in? So hoping that this kind of gives you a scope of what we're talking about today we're going to dive, you know again into the context of five face voter getting into, you know some of the more technical components and then seeing ways for you all to get involved. So with that I'm going to play this quick video and hopefully the audio and everything works. Is it working? And it is not working. Let's see. Give me a moment so I can pull up this video because I think it's really gonna help spearhead what it is that we're talking about and an introduction to the solution. Thank you John, no rush. So let's go here and we can go and play. You can't hear this so give me a minute. Zoom share, so this is the video. Wait, can you hear it? In minority, legally disabled, elderly or convicted of a felony, your voice matters. So when you are prevented from knowing how to get information to express your whole vote, a five face voter tool is designed to help fill that gap and put the power back in your hands. A group of diverse IBMers came together and created an open source solution that voters can access to a responsive website design. Check your voting stats, find your polling location, get connected to valuable and reliable resources like transportation and childcare options on election day. The five face voter starter kit introduces a cognitive solution built on IBM Cloud with OpenShift using Watson zone analyzer, Watson natural language as well as carbon design open source technology with custom components created in DJS, ExpressJS and Python. With additional strong API integrations, more reliable resources and a robust database, five face voter can become the go to voter hub for once marginalized voters. With your help, together we can expand and blow the five face voter platform. Take a peek, see where we're going and partner with us to complete five face voter. And this happens when you join us together, we can help speed up full voices being heard and counter the condition. Okay. Awesome. But today or tomorrow. Okay, all right. And so thanks for everyone who sat down to watch this and I'll go ahead and kick this off to Alexandria to introduce some of the team. I know everyone is on the call, you see a lot of faces on this screen, but definitely wanted to give a platform for the folks who are here with us today to share what they do in their full-time role as well as their position and what they were able to accomplish within the team. So kicking it off to you, Alexandria. Hey, everyone, can you hear me? Hey, great. Yeah, well, I just, it's actually really heartwarming because it's almost exactly a year ago we had one of our first meetings, solution meetings as part of this program. And one of the great things about our team that I really felt, I think that we all can say is that the way that we're constructed, the way that we have so many different backgrounds in our team, so many different life experiences, so many different cultures, viewpoints, understanding skill sets, I think that that is a key part of why this solution can be so effective is because it's by the people and for the people. Because of the experiences that we've all had, we can dig from those experiences and relationships and be able to cater to the end user and connect with the end user. And that's, it's something beautiful because it's all different types of people and that's what we ultimately would like to be able to reach. And we came together with the motivation of tackling the systemic racism issue. So that's something that I just found to be very touching and a year later, we can say that it's actually starting to get into the hands of people to be able to improve their lives. I'm not sure who else is on that might want to. Yeah, so you want them to just say like, what are you doing here full-time job? Just so people can understand that this is a project that a lot of folks on the call have done outside of their kind of scope of work just to show that folks are really passionate about that. So if you can share with folks, what are you doing outside of this work and just kind of giving a little bit of context to give interviews out to folks? Yeah, sorry, I thought that it had said on there, but yeah, so in my day job, I actually just got promoted to another role, but I moved over to the services department. So my focus is in data and artificial intelligence for expert labs on the sales principle. And so I oversee, I pretty much have my organization of clients and oversee them and deliver the services that we have around data and AI and automation. And I find it to be actually really applicable in this project because we definitely want to be able to leverage some of those schools to be able to connect with users as much as we possibly can. And for everybody else on the team, it's in their myriad of backgrounds that we all have, but I was a project manager on the team and others have very demanding jobs as well, but again, it just shows the passion and connectivity that we had in being a part of this program. It was actually a very accelerated, so we really had to work together and the respect that we all had for each other and each other's times. And even for those that were overseas that came on board, really spoke a lot to the integrity of the group of people that were a part of this project. Absolutely. So I'll let them kind of quickly do the round of folks who are on the call to just do a quick introduction and saying like what your full-time job is and then what you contributed towards the project and then we can move forward. Not all at once. My name is Joel Mitchell. I work at IBM as the architect for a product called IBM Developer for COS where my primary job is working on programming in Java, Eclipse and mainframe programming languages, whether that's Golang or Python or COBOL, C, HLAS, which is a similar base language. And that's my work full-time. I'll go after Gerald, I suppose. This is David Nixon. I also work at IBM, of course. And regular day job is working in the client centers doing technology for the client centers, the IBM client centers. On this project, along with Gerald and Sid and a bunch of others doing just kind of full-stack development on this, including the VJS stuff and back-in stuff. I'm Chris Steffanel. In my day job, I work as a project manager and a business analyst and lots of health provider consulting team. So working on delivering analytics, et cetera, to healthcare clients. I grew up as a programmer. And on this team, I've worked, you know, doing research and project management and a variety of other tasks. Awesome. Hi, my name is Sebastian and I am on my day job, which is pretty much the same thing that I'm doing for Five Fits Voter. I am senior designer in account-based industries marketing and my day-to-days creating assets that are client-facing. And it really helps tell the human story behind the technologies that we offer. Thank you. And that's Sebastian right there, just kind of circling that. And I think we got everyone on the call. And I'm Sabine, I'm not on this list, but I serve as kind of product manager for, you know, all the solutions for call for co-operational justice. So ensuring that the team's, you know, hard work and the solutions that they produce is available to the developer community as a whole, as well as, you know, organizations that will be on the receiving end of these solutions. So I'm kind of list back over to Alexandria to, you know, talk a little bit more about like what Five Fits is, you know, how it works and then, you know, kind of going through that process. So Alexandria, take it away. So, why Five Fits? So I believe that I really like this demonstration of it, especially with the hand, because in many ways with the hand, it's kind of like we want to stop, let's say stop to be the perpetual, you know, systemic racism and bias that's been a lot of part of human interaction in general, but particularly in the voting space, as well as Five Fits equals a whole from the standpoint of each and every person being able to have an equal opportunity to exercise their voting rights. As you can see to the right, there are several issues, voter suppression. I know we've all heard gerrymandering, you know, spelling, you know, if you've been accused of a spelling or if you've been charged a convicted of a spelling, rather, you know, a lot of people don't know what exactly their rights and capabilities are and what we want to do again is be able to bridge that divide and be able to create more opportunity in the community. Voter purging, another major issue. I'll talk a little bit more about that in the following slide, but really making sure that we have, we provide all the schools necessary for individuals to be able to bridge those gaps and you'd imagine that being in 2021, that a lot of these things would be solved and rectified and we'll again talk more about it in the timeline seeing how the voting capabilities have grown and maybe not grown so much over time. So we really want to get a strong hold on that. We want to do it in a different type of way. So by this, again, I believe it's great because of the wide mob and the people that came together to make it are so different and have so many amazing skills and talents to bring to people and can relate to the people that we're reaching out to, as well as the fact that, you know, we really want to create, differentiate ourselves in the way that we approach this by leveraging the technology that we have in EBR and IBM is of the solution, but there are all these skills that are at our, with their hands, literally, and we want to be able to use it to revolutionize the voting experience, to be able to make it more personable, make it personal to each individual because it ultimately is each individual's decision and media can be very influential and friends and family can be very influential positively or negatively. So we really want to be able to create an opportunity for people to have an interactive and accessible experience that is very much there. And I think it also is great, especially just even thinking about the name like Five Fifths voter, it really kind of touches back on, you know, African-Americans not being, you know, even considered like full beings to have a vote, to own grand, and you know, that's like the two-fifths rule that, you know, folks want to be able to look that up where you want to kind of consider two-fifths of a person. And so again, the Five Fifths equaling a whole, it could have been, you know, 10 out of 10, you're still a whole, but really around kind of some of the historical implications, I think for what was considered humanity, to own land, to cast a vote, to be, you know, self-sufficient in your own person, being able to capture that in that Five Fifths name, I think is really impactful. So. Absolutely. And sorry, I actually forgot to mention that, that was actually one of the main motivations before we saw these other additional implications. And really kind of piggybacking off of that, the three E's, so, you know, those are the pillars that we have that represent what our goals are in this, with the solution, the education piece again, really goes back to, I mean, the ridiculously high embers of voter purging, the voter suppression in the forms of, just not having that knowledge, and not knowing when voting registration ends, because some states are very strict, and if you miss it, you miss your opportunity. You know, not knowing how you register, not knowing if you're already registered, not knowing about early voting capabilities. And I will preach this, every single time I've talked about, you know, the solution is that, I mean, I can say as a testament myself, I had never voted early before. And because of our solution, I was able to seamlessly, not even just vote early, but seamlessly, vote early, 10, 15 minutes for both of the races that, you know, I was able to vote for. So just being able to have that knowledge, and knowledge really is power, and that's definitely the first key thing, is knowing what's out there, and having the awareness. The empowerment piece is really taking a step forward from that. And again, creating a community, and creating unity throughout this process. And the empowerment sometimes is the next step from knowledge, because once you know what's at your disposal, you realize how much power you do have. I think we all definitely saw the last year, the power in numbers, and the power in people acknowledging, you know, their value, and acknowledging the influence that voting can have over your individual life, and it's flexible lives. So empowering people in multiple ways, we really want to be able to do that through our platform, by keeping individuals educated and informed, as well as connected, and also being able to have certain specifications for their particular situation, so that they don't feel as though they're just in number, and that they are an actual person that has meaning. Enablement, again, so a couple of things that we've done to be actionable, is create avenues, not just in doing enablement by showing people how they can register, and if they're registered, but taking that step forward, and showing them where they would go, based on their particular situation, which is why another reason why personalization I think is very important, because they can see where they are, and based on, you know, their capabilities, and they want to drive, and they want to take UberLift, and they want to, however they would like to get there, we showed different ways to be able to get to these locations, we are also connected with showing what some of the regulations are within certain states, and that's going to continue to build in certain jurisdictions, and we also are looking to build, even more so, the enablement for those who may be disabled in certain ways, again, for those who may have been convicted of felonies, and things like that, and they're not quite aware that they have certain additional things that they need to do to be able to vote, even if they're not aware that they can. So the enablement, Billy, is extensive, and I really, and we as a team are really adamant about really using this technology, using these coding capabilities to be able to bring as much of a wealth of knowledge and capability to our project, and that just rolls into why voting is important, voting is your voice, it's just what you're writing, your power, and again, it's very individual, but it's also very much a community engagement as well, and for us to be able to come together and focus on our similarities and needs, and the similarities of me and attacking those together, rather than socializing on silos and the differences, it enabled us to see how we can be able to impact our future. Awesome. So we're gonna actually go into a demo of the five days builder site, and I am, okay, now I can stop sharing my screen because I know that Sebastian is actually gonna walk us through this as our wonderful designer to give us the hands-on experience so you all can see what this solution does. Great, give me one second while I'm pulling it up. Great, we are, and I would like to actually just, so this is the landing page, and I really would like to point you all to this countdown clock. As the team and I were working on the design and the UX, UI of this, what was something we could have very upfront to show this sense of urgency, this sense of need to have an action be committed and done. So we actually had a countdown clock to the general election of 2020, and it was actually used one more time afterwards for the runoff election in February, and then also now that we are reset the countdown clock to the midterm congressional election. So as the user scrolls down, we actually have enlarged our scope and included more disenfranchised folks and community. So there's a wider representation in the imagery, and as the user goes through the website, we have solidly used imagery to really help reinforce the humanity and why it is so important for everyone to be involved and to vote. So more to come as we talk more in the design process, but now I would like to kick this back to Sabine. Perfect. I'm actually gonna, we're doing lots of volleying over here, but you all can see the demo site right now is up and it's running, but we're going to go a little bit more into the technical details of the solution as illustrated by our wonderful tech folks on the line, and I'll hand it over to David. All right, so this is just a C4 diagram to show kind of the breakdown of the system context, that part in the middle is us, that blue part in the middle is us, and then this is the things we connect to, including some Secretary of State sites, vote.org, we pull some JavaScript embedded tools from there and from voting info project we pull from there. A lot of this stuff we get, especially on the pages where you're looking for the early voting location or your day of polling locations, that comes from the Google Civic API. And then we do have a little bit, I don't wanna overemphasize what we have for amplitude in terms of statistics, we really just have pages as our statistics that are getting fed back to the amplitude system. So that's the big system. I wanna zoom in on that box in the middle and that's gonna be on that next slide. So this is the same box in the middle and so we have a typical three tier website here. So we have our services back in that's a no express component that talks to a database, it's cloud on the IBM cloud. The only thing we write right now to the database is some cache data. For instance, when we get polling locations from Secretary of State sites that will go into that cache database. So we're not trying to pull it or scrape it every time. And that backend service is also what talks to the Google Civic API to pull in what the current elections are. And you can see that on the site, it'll list the current upcoming elections. There's three elections today. Actually, there's one in Michigan, Utah and Oklahoma. So it's a good thing we do this TV show on a Tuesday because that's typically when we see those dates. But those three elections are listed on the site and you can choose between those when you're trying to find your polling location. And we get that information from the Google Civic information. Yeah, and I really wanna kind of tie this back to kind of sum up my natural like questioning thoughts and what some other folks may be thinking. Well, if these are the sites that you're currently using to pull the information why can't I just go there? If again, we're talking about accessibility for communities that don't even know that these things exist. What happens if I go to my local grassroots organization or civic engagement organization and they point me to this tool, they don't have to send me to three different sites or even like one site to say, all right, these are the instructions for you to how to vote within your state. You can really kind of come here and it will point you in the right direction without having to navigate all of these different places. So I think that that's also why we're trying to show that we're able to make those connections across a myriad of places that host that information and putting it in a single location. So it's more accessible to folks who maybe don't know these other places exist, can have a little bit more time to understand the context and the ways in which they can vote. And so this is just supposed to be like a central place that they can access as part of their voter journey. So just wanted to say that, yeah, we're pulling the look from lots of places and information where folks probably wouldn't access it in our normal lives to understand how and where to vote. So just doing that random plug but kind of get back over to the next slide, David. Let me just cover the last couple here, but that is great context of being I appreciate that context because that is, that's our goal. So, okay, just on the UI, it's that piece of it is one that's pulling in the embedded tools from these other places and also doing the reporting out to amplitude for our minimal statistics that we keep there. And then the next slide is just the same system but in a, from a deployment point of view. So we are deployed as a Cloud Foundry app on the IBM cloud. So there's the three tiers you can see there. There's the service tier in the middle here that is a Node.js container. There's actually two pieces to that. 99% of what we do on the services end is Node.js. The Twitter stuff that we do is from a Python, a piece of Python code that we have. So that's the services in the middle and the web site talks to that services through proxy and that's the reporting out. So we get, you know, we report out the amplitude and the backend is fed by all these different services, some from the IBM cloud, some from elsewhere. So we have a, we have the Google Civic API as a service. The cloud is a service coming into the backend. The Twitter services is coming in from the backend through this as well as the natural processing, which is part of the Twitter code and the tone analyzer, which we also use with the Twitter code. So that's the deployment. That's the top level deployment on the IBM cloud. I think that's the last slide for me. Oh, no, sorry, there's one more for me. So we do have a pipeline that gets executed when changes are made to the site. And I don't think Gerald's gonna be able to demo that today. So I'll probably kick off the build during the call here and we'll show the pipeline in progress. But basically it's exactly what you expect. There's a little bit of a test stage in the pipeline that checks the code before actually does any deployment. There's a build for the UI and that produces that we use an engine exo web server as the front end and that builds the view JS into something that engine ex can use. And then there's a build for the, there's a deploy for the services and deploy for the UI. So those all run in sequence there. Awesome. And I think that Gerald crossing my fingers that you are good to go. I mean, it's one of those days versus like when you're called on, like your computer shuts down. I'm good to go. Okay, perfect. So I'll stop sharing so that we can do a live walk where you all are going to see some magic happen live. I'll explain just how magic it is in a second. First, I want to know where was I when they're handed out the call for code T-shirts, Gerald? I'm involved with multiple codes for code and this shirt came from a previous one. But it was the right shirt to wear today. So I'm hoping you can see my screen because I can't see what you can see. Yes, we can see it. All right, great. So I'm going to talk a little bit about what I'm about to show you. So this is the GitHub call for code for racism justice five that's voter. I actually had to start from scratch this morning. So this is absolutely as live as you can get. And what I actually had to do is I had to come through here, finally getting started document, figure out how I'm going to contribute and everything. We have all this great information about how to start video architecture, all the things that we just talked about, as well as links to understand all the open source technology that we use everywhere. The IBM technology we're using and how we're using it and all of that. And I actually had to kind of start from scratch here because this is my personal machine. My work machine became unavailable today. So I came in, I was like, okay, great. I'm going to do some work in VS code. I came to this page for getting started. I literally followed these steps. I installed yarn and Python three in Docker. And I was like, okay, I have a certificate of origin and I'm going to do project setup. And so this is where I am. I came in, I did the project setup. I attached to the GitHub at five as voter and was able to pull down the code and GitHub. I followed the instructions to create this ENV file. I am not sharing my keys here in case you were wondering, these are not my keys. I have actual keys, but I didn't want to share them on a video so other people wouldn't be using them as they're my personal development keys. But really I wanted to be able to show the development process. So if you look here in the developer, I'm not joking, all of this was literally starting from scratch. I had to do the yarn install, set up the services, build Docker for the first time, set up my nodes and everything. And I did this all at the beginning of this call. So if you're wondering how long it takes to get set up and running, this started as this call started at one o'clock. And I'm up and running now. I actually have my own instance here up and running five as voter. You can see it's running on my local hosts. Everything is here. It's all running. If I want to make a change, I can make a change and push it up. But I actually, for the few minutes that I have you today, I wanted to actually kind of go through a little bit of the source code and kind of what David was talking about at a kind of code level. And so you can kind of see, we have these services. I'll talk about the services first. We have mock data here that we provide. I can use these to do my testing. I have the ballot returns, the early voting. Really everything I need to do to kind of run the services in the backend, you can see that the services.js file kind of sets up these constants and we have the APIs here and can test them. And so I can come through, I can look at the Twitter. So the Twitter, we're actually using Tweepie for the kind of Twitter interface. We're using the Watson natural language understanding. We have the import the features for sentiment options and emotions and some of these concepts and all of the code is right here. So there's nothing hidden, everything is open. You can see exactly what we're doing for the language APIs. You can see here's how we're using the call tone analyzer. We do the tone analysis. We pass the tweet through the analysis and we create our results table. If you're interested in how we do the things for the UI, all the UI is here. And so let me see if we can go to one specific component. So you can see the UI actually, we have a UI for the tweets and how we handle the Twitter, the page views. It's all using the carbon and view level of view. And you can kind of see the different ones that we're pulling in by default and how we mount those. And it's all packaged up and we use Docker files, right? So none of this is hidden anywhere. You can see each activity as it happens as I build through yarn. You can see it creates the Docker instance. Let me pull over. When I created the database, right? I have this image over here. I can see what it's doing. You can see my shards and everything. And so as I do my development, I can do all my local development and then when I'm ready, I can have somebody do a review. Let's see here, I can bring my window back up for some reason it's not bringing my window back up. There we go. I can, you can see that, we have our issues out here and you can see that we go through a pull request and you can see the closed ones like there was an update just two days ago that they had merged in and we do everything in the open through GitHub. I encourage everybody to come in and give it a chance. And that's my pitch. I'm going to stop my share and we can continue. Awesome, thanks so much for that. And also to the point where he said that he was able to spin this up and let's have a time from the beginning of this meeting. I too am taking a Python class. And so I'm hoping eventually I'll be able to start doing these live and say, all right, crash course, coding with dummies, I'll be the dummy and show folks that it's actually possible because they're really the instructions within our GitHub are supposed to be really consumable for anyone who has the technology installed to move through it and for it to actually execute as it's illustrated. So I'm not going to hand it off to Sebastian who's going to talk about our design approach and giving again a little bit more context into how we're really connecting this to the human component and being able to develop an accessibility voting. Thank you very much, team. And Gerald, that was truly inspiring. I too now will pledge that I will be learning to code so be ready for all my questions. So, so go ahead, please. Oh, just saying, absolutely. Everybody's encouraged. Perfect, thank you. So Sabine, thank you so much for saying the words human centric design. And to really look forward, let's step back a little bit and look at where we were as a nation. So 1776, only Caucasian men, usually Christian and over 21 were allowed to vote. It was up until 1870 that Black men was, according to the passing of the 15th Amendment was given the right to vote. But that didn't mean that they were allowed to, they could access voting. 1920, women and women's suffrage gave women the right to vote, but it was not a universal, especially if you did not have citizenship that meant Asians that meant Native Americans. In 1924, universal citizenship was granted to Native Americans and therefore giving them the right to vote. But that does not mean that Native Americans were not disenfranchised. As an Asian American, I was beyond shocked that within my father's lifetime, my father was born in 1952. One, it was 1952 that Asian Americans were granted the right to be US citizens and given the right to vote. However, it was up until 1965 that they finally had legislation to say it is against law and theory to prevent people from voting. So next slide please, Sabine. Where were we in 2020? We still saw record amounts of inability for blacks and brown communities to access voting. And why was that? And with those insights and pain points is how we actually got to the next slide please. Our design thinking session where led by the incredible Sabine, we really reinforce our messaging to see who our doctors are, who our citizens are and of course the development community in our solution for five fifths voter. So next slide please. Yeah, and also just to kind of touch on this when we're really again relating this back to community. We had experts who are focused on civic engagement, how technology can be used for voter enablement to come and give us again that kind of external lens that I think can be lacking when we're talking about technology that's supposed to be focused on folks who are typically marginalized. So being able to make that connection is what we're really intent on doing and I think that's what five fifths voter is doing so well is that we know who we're focusing on, folks who don't normally have access to information on how to vote. And then those who are in the technology space giving us a little bit more information on what we can do to improve our solution, to again make accessibility more prominent but then those who are also working deep in those communities and just understanding their problems and what they would actually need to cast their vote being able to have that inform some of the work that we're doing. So again, browning this out, we didn't just say we have a great idea let's put all of our assumptions into this and execute it. It was really about being meaningful and purposeful with having conversations with folks that we know have more experience and more expertise in us to help us move forward in the right direction. Amazing, thank you Sabine. And of course we couldn't build a robust product without a real deep understanding of the user demographic. Who are we trying to design the solutions to? We definitely had a very thorough examination of the different communities that we were solving too. Was every questions like did everybody have the same kind of access to mobile devices? Does everybody have the same kind of wifi access? Does everybody have the same kind of access if you are an ex-convict to some kind of information that you can trust? So we did a very thorough understanding of whom our potential users are and we use design thinking to map out our personas. So instead of just making blind assumptions we actually had very educated informed decisions for features informed by specialists in the field as well. And next slide please, Sabine. And finally, some of the three main pillars as you've heard on the top of this call being education, empowerment and enablement. I wanted to align that with pathos, ethos and logos. Pathos being the emotions and the value that we want to convey to the user. Ethos being the credibility are the sources are representing unbiased information. So regardless of whether you vote one color or another we're presenting to the user very unbiased back checked information. And then finally logos, what is the reality? What is the reason? And this is really just based on the fact that five bits makes a whole. And we're all whole beings participating in a whole community and a whole global system. And thank you so very much back to you Sabine. Thanks so much, Sebastian. And so kind of moving into kind of the this is the running pipeline. So the example that Gerald so adequately shared I know if he said he wasn't able to use his current machine to kind of push that out and then have David showcase that but I know that David wanted to show a little extra something before we open the floor up for questions and give you all a little bit more information on how to get involved. David, did you want to take over sharing? Sure, so Gerald was not able to make a code change but so we got close. But I just the idea was I was going to show that his code change working his way through the pipeline. So instead I just pushed something just a sample change to actually update the read me with the diagrams that we saw earlier in this chat. So the read me had a version of those. So after the read me and then now it's just running through the pipeline. So we just wanted to show that run and that's probably it unless there's questions there but I'll hand it back to you. Okay, but yeah, y'all are seeing things like the was it the softish being made but softish is usually kind of gross. So we'll say like the pie being made because everyone took the pie. Yeah, exactly. And to kind of just like bring things kind of back to what we're saying, this is again, and most of our, not any most, but the solution is that we're presenting especially under Culver Code for Criminal Justice is meant to not be biased among political affiliations, political lines. You didn't know we know that sometimes these issues can be politicized but we are really focused again on how can we address voting issues? Like if you want to be able to vote how can we allow, encourage you and power and enable you to do so? And you can actually find out a lot of information on what is currently happening around voter ID laws voter suppression, redistricting, red mining that really affects typically black and brown communities from casting their votes. And so we're just again trying to be able to be that bridge as an application for folks to feel like they can make decisions on their own. They have information and they are able to move forward and casting their ballot. And so moving forward, we're still gonna continue to ensure that the basic capabilities of five fifths is working. So checking if you're registered to vote, if you've moved, have you updated your address so you know, update your registration. If you have to have different IDs, like being able to navigate that and being able to provide those updates, hours and locations of absentee vote drop offs and tons more issues that we have within the GitHub right now. And specific roles that we're also gonna call here where we would love to have people from the community be able to contribute. And if you reach out to us in Slack I promise we will respond. And Demi Ajay, she's not on the call right now but if she's listening somewhere in the Ethers, is also really diligent about welcoming folks into call for code virtual justice, how you can get started. And then our GitHub is also a great place for you to understand first issues and where you can start to support. And I'm gonna hand this over just to Chris really quickly who has been really instrumental in helping us to execute on some of the projects that we have upcoming and also illustrating some of the help that we would like to have in the couple of months. Thanks Vane. Again, I'm Chris Stefano and we are welcoming everyone, anyone who is motivated by things you've seen today to get involved as it relates to this issue. If you have concern for yourself, your family members, your loved ones, your community in terms of your ability to vote and protecting the right to vote. There's an opportunity for you regardless of what skills you have to come and participate. So you can see the list there, certainly technical skills are relevant and user experience skills, research skills, data analysis, marketing, project manager, whatever sort of role you, whatever sort of skills you might bring to the table are welcome. And I'm guessing that on the next slide it's a how to get in touch with us. So yeah, yeah. Exactly. So if you have those skills, feel free to pull out your phones and follow this QR code, join us in this Black community. You'll be able to also get started on IBM Cloud with $200 worth of credits in order to start building out your own businesses or doing some testing within our solution. And staying connecting with us and if there are other resources that we can provide for you to be brought up to speed around other technologies that you're interested in or how it can lend itself to some of the things that we're working on for a five days builder, we welcome the discussion. Again, we're not trying to make this about just IBM even though of course you see IBM got this. We really wanna be able to be kind of a point of access for folks all over the globe who want to learn more about these systems, being able to provide their technical expertise and advancing what justice can look like in these communities. And essentially just being another opportunity for folks to really put their heart as we've seen from this project team into a solution that is actually being adopted. And plug for this is that we are focused on adoption and we have some good news coming in the next couple of months around how five days builder is gonna be able to operate at scale within a really well-known and really well-respected organization around voter engagement and empowerment. So thank you. I think that's all the words we got today, Chris. Didn't know if there are any additional questions from the chat though you want to bring up. No additional questions, but I love the teaser. That's awesome. I'll be keeping my eye out for that one. But folks please, if you're interested get involved just drop the link in the stream chat. If you have any questions or comments, feel free to reach out to me or any Sabine, anybody on this call can kind of help you out. But I greatly appreciate y'all bringing this to OpenShift TV. And I really think this is an important effort. So thank you very much. And... I'm saying thank you to the product team. I'm just a fan girling and I appreciate everyone's time and effort and excited to grow this out more. You'll be hearing more about what this great solution is doing. Awesome, can't wait to see more of it. So thank you very much. And we'll see you... We're doing another one of these next week, right? And two and a week and a half work today. Yeah. All right, cool. Awesome, so stick around folks. As always, check out the streaming calendar if you want to be kept up to date on everything. Subscribe to it and you'll have that calendar in yours. And until next time, I hope you all stay safe out there. Thank you. Chris, thank you everybody.