 Live from Los Angeles, it's theCUBE, covering Open Source Summit, North America 2017, brought to you by the Linux Foundation and RedHash. Welcome back everyone, live in Los Angeles for theCUBE's exclusive coverage of the Open Source Summit North America. I'm John Furrier, your host with my cohost, Stu Miniman, our next guest is Elaine Young, at EGSY on Twitter, check her out. Student at Holberton School? At Holberton School. Holberton School, and that's in San Francisco? Ruffing the school right here? Looking good? You look great, so Open Source is a new generation, it's going to go from 64 million libraries to 400 million by 2026, new developers are coming in, it's a whole new vibe. Right. What's your take on this? Looking at this industry right now, looking at all this old, the old guard, the new guards coming in, a lot of cool things happening, Apple's new AR kit was announced today, you saw VR and ARs booming, multimedia. Got an indoor home button, right, like I... Killer stuff happening. I mean, one of the reasons why I wanted to go into tech and this is why I, like what I told him when I applied to Holberton School was that I really think at whatever next social revolution we have, technology is going to be somewhat, like somehow integral to it. It's probably not even like an existing technology right now and as someone who's just like social justice minded, I wanted to be able to contribute in that way, so, and develop a skill set that way. Well, we saw the keynote, Christine Cobert Moran was talking really hardcore about code driving culture. This is happening, so this is not like, you know, maybe going to happen, you're starting to see it, you're starting to see the culture being shaped by code and notions of ruling classes and elites potentially becoming democratized, 100%, because now software, the guys and gals doing it are active on it and they have a mindset that come from a community. So this is interesting dynamic. As you look at that, do you think that's closer to reality? Where in your mind's eye do you see? Because you're in the front lines, you're young, student, you're immersed in all the action. I wish I was in your position in all these great AI libraries, you got TensorFlow from Google, you have all this goodness kind of coming in, I mean. So let me make sure I'm hearing your question right. So you're asking like, how do I feel democratization of, like, edge? Do you feel it? Are you there? Is it happening faster? Well, I mean, things are happening fast. I mean, I didn't have any idea, like, how to use a terminal before January. I didn't know my way around Linux or GitHub or how to push a commit until I started at Holberton School. So in that sense, I'm actually experiencing this democratization of education. The whole reason I'm able to go to this school is because they actually invest in the students first and we don't have to pay tuition when we enroll. It's only after we are hired or actually until we have a job and then we do an income share agreement. So it's really cool to have like a school where they're basically saying like, we trust in the education that we're going to give you so strongly that you're not going to pay up front. Because we know you're going to get a solid job and you'll pay us a debt. It takes a lot of pressure off too. Yeah. Because then you don't have to worry about that overhand. Exactly. I wrote about that in my essay as well. Yeah. Because who wants to like worry about student debt like while you're studying? So now I can fully focus on learning C, learning Python. All right, what's the coolest thing that you've done that's cool that you've gotten like motivated on? Cause you're getting your hands dirty. You get the addiction. Take us through the day and the life of what? Wow. I don't know. This is a killer. Dude, I normally, I'm just kind of a cool person. So I feel like everything I, no, no. That's good. That's the best answer we heard. Okay. So we had a battle, a rap battle at my school of programming languages. And so I wrote a rap about bash scripts and that is somewhere on the internet. And I'm pretty sure that's like one of the coolest things. And actually coming out here, one of my school leaders, Sylvan, he told me, he was like, you should actually put that like pretty front and center on your LinkedIn or whatever my profile. And what was cool is when I met Linus yesterday, someone who had seen my rap was there. And it's almost like it was like set up because he was like, oh, are you the one that was rapping bash? And I was like, well, why yes, that was me. And then Linus said it was like, what did he say? He was like, oh, that's like a weird owl level. Like just the fact that I would make a rap about bash. That's so cool. So is that on your Twitter handle? Can we find that on your Twitter handle? Yes, you can. Okay, EGSY. Yes. So, Lin, you won an award to be able to come to this show. What's your take been on the show so far? What was exciting about you and what's your experience been so far? To come to the summit. Well, so when I was in education and as a dean, we did a lot of backwards planning. And so I think for me, like that's sort of like, I was looking into the future and I knew that in October I would need to like start looking for an internship. And so one of my hopes coming out here was that I would be able to expand my network. And so like that has been already, like that has happened more than I even expected in terms of being able to meet new people, come out here and just like learn new things, but also just like hear from all these, everyone's experience in the industry and everyone's been just super awesome and super positive here. Yeah, we usually find, especially at the open source shows, almost everyone's hiring. You know, there's huge demand for software developers. Maybe tell us a little bit about Holburton School, you know, and how they're helping, you know, ramp people up and be ready for, for kind of this world. Yeah, so it's a two year higher education alternative and it is nine months of programming. And that split up into three months low level. So we actually did C where we, you know, programmed our own shell, we programmed printf. Then after that we followed with high level. So we studied Python and now we're in our CIS admin track. So we're finishing up the three, the last three months. And like throughout it, there's been a little bit like intermix, like we did binary trees a couple of weeks ago. And so that was back in C and so I love it when they're like throwing like C at us when we've been doing Python for a couple of weeks. And I'm like, damn it, I have to put semi-pons. And it's not compiling, I don't have to compile this. Oh anyways, so off track. And okay, so after those nine months and then it's a six month internship and after that it's nine months of specialization. And so there's different special, you can specialize in high level, low level. They'll work with you in whatever you, whatever the student their interests are in. And you can do that either full-time student or do it part-time, which most of the students that are in the first batch that started in January, 2016, they're, most of them are like still working, are still working, and then they're doing their nine month specialization that's like part-time students. Final question for you, Lynn. Share your personal thoughts on, as you're immersed in the coding and learning. You see the community, you meet some great people here, network expanding. What are you excited about going forward as you look out there, as you finish up and get involved? What's exciting to you in the world ahead of you? What would you, what do you think you're going to jump into? What's popping out and revealing itself to you? I think coming into the conference and hearing Jim speak about just how diversity is important and also hearing from multiple speakers and sessions about the importance of collaboration and contributions, I just feel like Linux and open source, this whole movement is just a really, it's a step in the right direction, I believe, and it's just, I think the recognition that by being diverse, that we're going to be stronger for it, that is super exciting to me. And yeah, I just hope to be able to, I mean I know I'm going to be able to add to that. We certainly are, thanks for coming on theCUBE. Congratulations on your success. Thanks for coming, I appreciate it. Thank you, thank you. And this is theCUBE coverage live in LA for Open Source Summit North America. I'm John Furrier, Stu Miniman, more live coverage after this short break.