 It's actually a pleasure to see so many people up here at 9 a.m.. So thank you for coming on time We're gonna get started. It's exactly nine and we have a record of starting all our conferences on time So with that I'm gonna invite Chris who is the executive director of the jQuery foundation Thank you for supporting this conference and coming over here Over to you Chris. All right. Yeah, so good morning. Um, I am Actually kind of surprising so I usually start my day at like six o'clock, right? This feels really early, and it's only night All right so I'm gonna talk a little bit about the jQuery foundation and Some of the things we do some of our projects And just kind of give like a really high level of view of kind of what goes on at the foundation Not gonna get too technical on you this early, so Hopefully it'll still be interesting Some good information. Hopefully some things that you don't know about what we do specifically Like the title of the talk said is that the jQuery foundation itself is about a lot more than just jQuery jQuery is obviously a big part of it. It's the sort of the namesake of the foundation It's really important to the web, but we do a lot more than that And so that's kind of the stuff that that I want to talk about today This is just a little bit about me and how you can get a hold of me, so I'm pretty much I'm cable orchard is pretty much everywhere So you can always reach out to me there That's my email so feel free to To shoot me an email if you have questions or just want to talk about some of our projects or if your organization Interested in getting involved in the foundation somehow I'd be more than happy to talk to you so feel free to reach out I guess a little bit of quick background about me I'm Sort of a self-taught web developer I do have a computer science degree, but Learned the web myself most recently I worked at Red Hat before I started working for The jQuery foundation and before anybody gets excited that I might know anything about Linux or Java. I don't I Was actually a JavaScript lead on one of their mobile projects, so My any technical knowledge I have is mostly on the client side, so But yeah, so now I run I'm the executive director of the jQuery foundation So I run kind of the day-to-day business side of things. So I'm doing a lot of Outreach and and marketing type stuff and fundraising and things like that. So don't get to really write a lot