 Okay, so Yehuda gave us some vision Ed gave us some technical details and Usually the part that's missing is this so what now I? Don't know about you, but that's always been kind of like I'm a little bit OCD and that's always been my Problem with conference inspiration is that I never feel like I have any actionable steps What do I do next though? What do I go home and talk to my boss about what do I go back to work and implement? I never really feel like I have a clear picture. Well, sometimes I do but in general I don't feel like I do so That's what we're gonna talk about right now in case some of you are having that feeling Okay, yes, so that was Yehuda That was Ed and that this is me so Can are you brave enough are comfortable enough for your hand? Do you are you thinking that were you thinking that as we were going through these things? Yes, okay good First I think it's important to review how ember works because ember doesn't work like our peers There's not a single company that owns us ember We own us It's a collaborative effort Completely unless we show we all show up and we all participate it doesn't happen What does that really look like what can it really look like so? It could look like somebody submitting a PR on a weekend to help get some doc shipped It could look like somebody donating to ember on open collective It could look like a company donating 20% of their employees time to work on open source it could look like a company helping to Sponsor a major initiative to get a big piece of work done. It could also look like a Company sponsoring their product Sponsoring us by letting us use their product at note at no cost to us So the role of the core teams so now we talked about how ember works now Let's remind ourselves. What's the role of core teams? Well the core teams are here to define our vision and to facilitate progress and To lead the work and make space for the community to join What about the community? What's the expectations there? Well, we want you to participate in the RFC process and submit PRs to help the implementation go and help write docs to try out new features and tell us what happens and a lot more there's a lot more to it than just that but those are the things that are sort of These are the things you can do as a community member We all have to participate and we all have to do the work and that work takes different shapes and different forms But ember only really works when all of the ember users pitch in to help make ideas happen Sometimes it might feel like core teams aren't saying much and we might not be our bad We might be heads down shipping things. We might be busy raising kids We might be dealing with a global pandemic and there might be a lot of stuff and it might just be a quiet time Maybe taking vacations. I don't know. We try to have lives But here's the thing You do not have to wonder You don't have to go on Twitter and say oh, I think ember's failing because blah blah blah If you don't think progress is being made if you don't think there's as much Movement as you think you would like to see guess what? you get to ask and You could even take a picture of this slide In case somebody tells you you can't ask because I'm telling you right now You can ask these are the words. These are some of the words you could use if you don't know what words to say We want you to ask because we want to be able to Tell you what's been happening and sometimes we just hyper focus and forget So how can you get involved some places you can start you can visit the new contributors channel in discord I just made it today because We had some ideas and one of them was How can we funnel new contributor energy because discord might be overwhelming if you're not used to discord So I'm a gamer and I've been on discord since like day one of discord. So to me It's like just use it. It's a big deal But for other folks, they've given us the feedback that it might be a little overwhelming So here's a place where new folks can go that want to start contributing but don't know how Start a conversation at work Hey, we use open source We all have to contribute to ember to make it work What can we do here at work to support the thing we use at work? Make sense, right and If that conversation doesn't go well or if you need ideas on how to have that conversation Or if you want some core team members to have that conversation with your boss Then reach out and let's schedule a call. Let's help figure out. What is the best contribution path forward for you and your team? You can also help join the players project So this is the URL for the players project. We're trying to project manage it right out of the open You can see what's in progress what's been done what needs owners still You can DM me on discord if you want to join the players team. Maybe there's something that you feel like you could really own This is an opportunity for anyone here that wants to to become involved and this is also how you can keep track and In closing I'll say this Ember works the best when we all participate The core teams are here to do heavy lifting, but they can't do all the lifting I've really tried honestly. I just there's only so much a single person can do and then it's burnout And then you you don't want to burn out because you want to keep going and there's this whole like ah so Remember this burn this into your school. We all have to participate in this community For this open source JavaScript framework that we love and there's a ton of ways to do that My DMs are open Reach out to me. Let's get everyone involved and let's make this great idea happen Thank you