 So here the linear connect at the you had the you were talking something during just after the open hours What were you talking about? Yeah, so I gave a session after open hours on a new 96 boards initiative that We've been working on called open source academics now Open source academics is kind of you know, what it sounds like trying to bring academics to an open source ecosystem But the goal for us at least one of our goals in particular when you're thinking about industry and academics In my personal experience and it seems to be from the experience of people I've spoken with so there is somewhat of a disconnect When you're in it when you're in school and when you're working with you know The regular curriculum that you're usually on especially in engineering. It seems that you're not always working on the technologies that you should be working on You know for industry And so the goal here is at least from a 96 board standpoint is to try and get the right technologies into the hands of the students Now I'm only talking about one facet of this right because open source academics does plan on tackling many other issues but Let's see if I can try to summarize these now Looking at this repository or this org I should say the github.com forward slash os academics You can see that we have five separate components One component is the home component and this basically is the landing page of the Org it allows you to branch out and experience all of the different other aspects of it Now you'll also find an executive summary a roadmap, which is a little bit out of date right now Hopefully to be updated in the next quarter But that is your place to get started now. Let's kind of go up the list here university University was what I was kind of first talking about How do we start to get the right technologies into the hands of the students and into the hands of the professors to create the right? Curriculum that's needed to gear these students up for actual work experience Now this is also to the benefit of industry now if you think about it A lot of money is spent and a lot of time is spent in ramp up periods for new hires If you're able to get the right technologies into the hands of the students and have the professors teach the right curriculum With an influence from industry Incentivizing the academic side of things you could be not only helping the students get jobs But also lowering your lowering their barrier of entry into that particular industry So very nice aspect here. We're trying to do is we're trying to set up a nice user interface Nice platform for people to start collaborating on in this regard When you look at training and workshops, it's somewhat similar, but not to such a high standard So, you know, when it comes to university level curriculum, there is going to be a lot more needed to make sure that that curriculum is actually Usable in universities. So we'll need to work a lot closely with universities and professors to make this actually happen This will most likely be the the component of this initiative that takes the longest to achieve And it is one of our biggest goals now one more aspect of this before I jump to these other ones is You know, you see a lot of very nice universities out there and you see a lot of very passionate professors And these are the best kind right the best professors are the passionate ones that want to teach you but a lot of times the professors don't have the resources that they need to teach the things that they want to teach and You know creating this digital file cabinet in an open source ecosystem can definitely bring this type of Curriculum and Forward to the professors that want to teach it. So essentially creating this digital file cabinet Allowing professors who want to teach teach to teach things that they might not have had access to And if maybe they find something that was wrong with it They could also contribute fixes and then of course just like the open source world works Grow a more robust curriculum. And that's also a good thing training and workshops I'm not going to dive too much into that. These are a lot more easier to attain You want to go teach something at a maker space or a fab lab? You want to get involved in any sort of workshop in-house training? You know hosting your curriculum in an open source way could allow other places to use it as well as building up And of course creating a more robust curriculum for your workshops or your training sessions Now one that I found interesting and this is going to be the one that most likely hits the repository first Is the bounties component and the bounties component can be looked at simply as a A Almost infinite unending hackathon, right? Okay. So now I mentioned I want to create a situation where industry can incentivize Students and academics Professors, let's just say all academics to contribute back things and work with the technologies from industry The bounty system allows industry and more specifically 96 boards partners, but of course everyone is welcome um to pick a technology pick a an amount of time they feel is is Necessary to complete this task Or I should say assign a task and pick a time pick a technology start over pick a technology assign a task And then assign a time to complete that task And then incentivize by incentivizing and giving these students or professors something to complete You allow them to almost compete for the incentive. This is a bounty now what happens here Is we're generating A way for say students and this is just one use case Students to actually build up their digital portfolio to get experience in things that they would have not other That they would have otherwise not had the opportunity to get in get get familiar with there's lowers again the ramp up time for For students who are trying to get into Industry, but also when you're looking at freshman and sophomore level Students, especially in the college area the college range They're usually trying to find internships that are taken up by you know the more experienced students And so instead of uh instead of feeling down and out, you know Turn to open source turn to open source academics and find a way to contribute find a way to build on a project or Help an industry partner out By completing one of their bounties and maybe you know, uh, what is it cashing in on one of their incentives? So we're still working out the you know, the details on how the incentives will be Divvied out what kind of incentives they'll be could be something from you know Getting your hand on the technology getting a chance to just keep what you worked on So like you delivered it you delivered your code you delivered your project your videos Whatever it was that that the industry was asking for you learned a lot in doing so And then you get to keep the technology you worked on very nice could be an interview so what is uh What is the part that uh that open source academics or nice boards or in ours doing here and uh Who's going to join who's supposed to join this this project? Well, so right now it's very much in its early stages there's A few of our partners who have showed interest in wanting to participate in this And there are several universities who have showed interest in wanting to participate in this But in a way it is somewhat the chicken and the egg We're trying to figure out how we can you know plant this initial seed And and watch it grow right because you know again, this is this give and take between industry and academics This is uncharted territory for for me in particular And uh, we're really looking forward to seeing how it how it can grow now we'll say Um What I would really like to see Is uh the initial push being made from the university So, you know generating a first stream of Generating the first stream of of curriculum around already accessible technology Will really give this Or really be the catalyst for this to take off because industry will really start to see the functionality of this and start to utilize it I know that on a 96 ports on 96 ports behalf I plan on launching some of the first bounties once the system is up and running I will be launching some bounties and we will hopefully see that take off So that means there could be a bounty about getting something to work On these and then somebody would Try to get the bounty and then if they succeed they win it Yeah, so essentially that's that's basically that in a nutshell. That's it. Yeah So you would be assigned a you know, there is a there's criteria You fulfill the criteria for the bounty you get you get it, right? And so that's the system that we're trying to set up and we're trying to have it ongoing But the beautiful thing about this right is that it's not just 96 boards We're really hoping that industry latches on to this and give them a nice platform a nice interface to use So that they can post bounties all across and figure out the ways that they want to start working with this Yeah I should say