 Hello. My name is Chicho. I'm from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and I've been active online for quite some time. What I'm here to do is talk to you about a project that I've been working on for the last three years, which I'm about to kick into high gear really. Now in 2007, I was asked to help out a family member with some math basically. They needed help learning high school mathematics. And since they lived in the United States and I'm in Canada, it's quite difficult to do that through email. So what I ended up doing is making math videos, instructional math videos, and posting them on YouTube. The videos were very well received. And I did this for 2008 as well. And I did this again for 2009. And I plan on doing it every summer until I get the project that I want to get done. Now what I've done is basically started with what I believe to be the starting point of really trying to understand high school mathematics or elementary school mathematics. I started with the real number set. And I plan on creating enough videos, enough series together to at least get to an introduction level in calculus. Definitely do a series on statistics and possibly linear algebra. And to give you an idea of where I am right now, I've sort of been doing this part time, full time in the summers for the last three years. And I've got about anywhere between 10 to 20% of material that I wanted to get done done. So there's a fair chunk of stuff still to come. And my estimate is going to take me anywhere between five years to, or longer, to get this done. Now what I've been doing with the videos is I don't like the box class structure the way our present education system is set up. Anyone who's watched the videos obviously knows that. So what I've been doing is, for most of the videos anyway, when it's been sunny, when it's been nice out, I've been grabbing my chalk, grabbing my little camera and little tripod. And I've been going to town finding walls and I've been doing mathematics on any nice walls I could find. And, you know, that's come out pretty good. And it's worked out quite nicely. And I'm pleased with the videos and a lot of people are finding them useful. What I've also been doing with the videos is cutting the videos to music. And, you know, when I'm setting up or when I'm taking off and the walls fairly far away, you know, I go there right on the wall and come back and talk about what I've just written on the wall, right? For those videos what I've done is sample, you know, any music that I like and music is a huge part of my life. Any music that, you know, resonates well with me that I think has a good message in general, a good message. And which I like the beats for. I've been sampling those videos and, you know, using them whenever, wherever I could. And a lot of the music that I've sampled so far has been hip-hop. I've done some electronic music. I do plan on sampling some metal because I love metal. I actually love a lot of different genres. So I've put three series together right now. That's, you know, there's about 90 videos out there, about 11 hours worth of material. Now I'm gonna do another series this summer. We're in February 2010 right now. So there's a couple of months before the weather starts getting really nice outside, where I can go out and, you know, continue what I'm doing. So I'm gonna do this, you know, this summer as well. And we're gonna continue to do it every summer until I get to where I want to get to, which is introduction and calculus and definitely a series on statistics. So what I'm plan on doing this year I'm dedicating to is to create two websites that are specifically gonna be dealing with mathematics and presenting these videos. And I'm gonna, you know, I do have a table of contents right now and that's available on cheecho.boxbot.com. And I'm gonna continue expanding that table of contents to all the different material that I'm gonna start covering. Or I have covered and I will be covering. And it's gonna be fairly, fairly large. It's basically gonna be a textbook level of material. And there will be some kind of exercise books coming to complement the videos so people, you know, can actually sit down and do exercises and check your answers and stuff like this. So the first stage of getting what I want done is to set up the two math websites. Now, the first math website is gonna be a personal website, which is gonna be geared towards generating income for myself and income for anyone that's gonna get involved with this project. And I'm gonna talk to you about that. And whatnot, whatever else that I feel like doing on a personal site I plan on doing. The other website is gonna mirror everything on this website. But this website is gonna be geared towards raising money for organizations that are actively working to end prohibition. And that's a huge for me, as it should be a huge, as far as I'm concerned, to everybody else. So two websites are gonna come online. And that's what I'm dedicating my time for 2010 for. And in addition to making the videos in this summer coming up. So one is gonna be a personal website and the other one's gonna be the website which is gonna mirror this and gonna be geared towards raising money for these organizations. And there's a whole list of organizations that are actively working to change these archaic laws that our governments are enforcing. They're costing society unimaginable. It's just a burden. It's just disaster, right? Some of those organizations are, there's a leap, there's law enforcement against prohibition. There's students for sensible drug policy. There's Eurowid is one of the greatest websites around that has tremendous amount of information on everything, really, from plants to whatever you want. Okay, so that's my plan. As far as I see it, basically everything I've done so far has been geared towards crunching numbers. And I sort of have, I look at the world from a statistics point of view, I guess. I look at numbers and analyze things. I'm an analyst at heart. And that's served me well in life. And I find it disheartening that a lot of people don't understand mathematics or think that mathematics is hard. Because as far as I'm concerned, mathematics is intuitive with everyone. We use it constantly, even if we know we're using it or we don't, right? So it's human nature. Mathematics is part of nature. As far as I'm concerned, mathematics is embedded everywhere. It's music, it's art, it's paintings, it's structure, it's chemistry, it's physics, it's a literature, it's poems, it's everything. So approaching life from a mathematical, from an analytical point of view, has, for me, has made life easier for me. And I know it has made life easier for a lot of other people. So by having a space where people can go and learn mathematics from basics, which is, as far as I'm concerned, the real number set all the way up to calculus, which is basically the introduction of time and change. And there's a saying that says, the only constant in life is change. And calculus is the branch of mathematics that deals with the rate of change. It introduces change into the analysis aspect of how we're looking at the world, how we're interpreting the world, what we're doing with our functions. So super important, as well as statistics. So if everybody in the world, basically, long story short, if everybody in the world knew mathematics, understood how to analyze numbers and what not, basically was literate in the language of mathematics, I think the world would be a much more beautiful place. There would definitely not be as many scans as there are in the world. And there would be communities built. There would be, in my ideal world, everything would be decentralized, or almost everything would be decentralized and would be living in more communal society. And that's my personal take on mathematics. And this project that I want to do is, will hit a few different aspects of what I want to do in life, I guess, or how I want to interact with life. The way I approach everything is sort of a layered approach to life, which is if I do one thing, hopefully it's hitting on a few different other things that I'm doing. And setting up these two math sites will definitely, well it's actually three-fold at least, which is going to be generating money, teaching mathematics, and trying to end prohibition. And those three things sound great to me, so that's what I'm doing is dedicating this time to it.