 We got to let the people know who are outside that they're missing something right now. So who's ready for some lightning talks? I love it. Love the energy My name is Jason Hibbets. I'm a community manager for open source comm and this is I'm also a community manager on open source comm We're just gonna do a brief introduction Because we know we've got seven amazing speakers that you came here to listen to and really not listen to us So really for those of you, hopefully you've seen At our booth or around the conference We love all things open. This is a huge partnership for us As you know, the content is amazing and so we're bringing just a sliver of that amazing content here to you on the main stage for lunch We've got I've got a great team of folks my team my team team is over here My extended team with the moderators and columnists are over here and they do some amazing work And I think one of the things that we hear very often is that Folks like yourselves don't know that you have a story to tell or a way to tell your story and Open source comm is that platform for you if you'd like to get in touch with us This is how you can contribute. We've got a web form that'll walk you through Kind of some of the steps that are necessary. We try to make that as easy as possible You can always email us at open at open source comm that goes to my entire team So someone will respond and then ourselves the team the moderators and a lot of writers are hanging out on free node at IRC On a pound open source comm So we figured we should tell you why you should contribute so Ricky and I are gonna go through that right last year we sent a note out to a bunch of our writers and Moderators and we asked them to tell us why they contribute because we had an idea of what we thought people would write for us But we wanted to hear what they actually said and we were really excited about a bunch of their responses We heard from several people who we reached out to that they'd actually received jobs as a result of having written for us It's also a really good way If you've got a new project or you're doing something interesting with your project to put a spotlight on it so we've seen many examples where We have in some cases brought down someone's project website because we sent them so much traffic that it couldn't handle that That was a couple years ago and the infrastructure has gotten a lot better It's another great way to grow your network also Not only will you get to know those of us working on the site? But it's a great way to network with our moderators and our other writers and then people in open source communities We'll see what you've written it and often will reach out to you either in the comments or Tracking you down online or an IRC We also as you go to a lot of talks you hear hey, we need more than just coders and open source We'd love all the coders. Thank you for what you do, but maybe writing is your strong suit or maybe storytelling is your strong suit So this is just kind of a different way that you can give back to the at-large open source community It's also a great way to get free professional editing services You will be working with an editing team and we will work on polishing your pros And we will send it back to you for a final review before we publish it to make sure that you're happy with it So don't worry if you're not a professional writer. We will make you look professional online Yeah, or if English isn't your first language we can help with that. Absolutely. However, we won't write your book Okay, no no book writing We are quite lovable if you come to our booth or you might go by the booth people come by and give us hugs It's pretty awesome. They love working with us. They ask first Permission yeah, yes, and we do make the writing process as easy as possible We'll work with you from the very beginning. So don't worry if you haven't written for a publication before Or if you nervous we do give extra time and attention to our first-time writers or for first writers. So don't worry about you know waiting into Getting in over your head or anything. We will definitely make it easy and fun process for you And if you've been to the site and you have an account a lot of you know We you do earn points as you participate and click on things and write and comment you earn points You don't get anything for the points, but people love competing for the points. So just just so you know And then we've got this really cool project and this is like Ricky's like one of her child's right So she's gonna tell you all about our yearbook Yes, my background is in print publishing and I've always wanted to work with red hat to do some kind of a print piece, but then I joined red hat had to infiltrate the company and Last year they worked with me to actually put out a magazine a Open source yearbook. It's our new open source annual yearbook and so what we did is we published these articles as a series of articles starting in December throughout the month and we collected the series and posted them online as a free PDF download and Then we also have free print copies that we brought to the event if you swing by the booth Please do and grab several because we brought quite a few that we would like to give out to you we've already started working on the 2016 edition and Those articles should start appearing in late November And they will run all the way through December and then in January will release a 2016 edition of the yearbook