 Welcome. I'm Tim Pepper. I'm a senior staff engineer and head of VMware's open source technology center I've been a contributor to the Kubernetes project for many years I've served as a SIG and working group co-chair and I'm currently serving on the code of conduct committee But today I'm here to talk about something a little unusual So there was a bunch of stats given earlier talking about how broad our community is and this cloud native ecosystem It's a great place. It's a great corner of tech. I'm really fortunate to work here in Kubernetes in particular at VMware and I have a team where people clearly value inclusion At the same time Maybe you've heard surveys that ask about diversity equity inclusion and they say are you comfortable bringing your full self to a Particular place that's trying to be more inclusive and you might be surprised to hear that I typically answer no So do you look at me? You probably think and I understand their stereotypes and no offense in this But how can this pale skin long-haired dude not feel anywhere at home in tech, right? But the answer for me and for many others is that we're not always fully seen You see I'm in aid of California. I Just didn't from the Norel Mukbang of Windu tribes of northern California And because of that context when I saw that this year's conference was gonna fall in the week of indigenous peoples day I saw an opportunity for myself to be more fully seen for my indigenous brothers and sisters to be more fully seen To say that we are here Because it's it's been easy to not see us in 1492. There's many as 60 million people already here Today that number is more like 7 million. We're 2% of the population in the tech workforce though We're only 1% of the workforce So indigenous peoples day gives an opportunity to be here to celebrate to be celebrated Because It's again easy to miss even though there's been hundreds of years of pressure though wars massacres Hundreds of members of my own tribe murdered California has the highest indigenous population of all US states. There's over a hundred federally recognized tribes There's almost a hundred languages So for the the computer language nerds, maybe you value that this region has one of the highest linguistic diversities heritage of the entire planet and Here specifically in Los Angeles, you have the highest indigenous population of all US counties Still it can be easy to miss us. We're a small population We even verge on being statistically insignificant in these diversity equity inclusion surveys where they ask for self identifying Demographics sometimes we're the final box the checkbox that's labeled other Now obviously it doesn't feel particularly inclusive to be explicitly othered, but what is inclusivity? So I'm guessing a lot of you have heard the saying that inclusion is not just inviting somebody to dance I'm sorry inviting somebody to the dance, but inclusion is inviting somebody to dance the difference between being invited to a dance and Dancing so as I contemplate kind of the the diversity of culture tribe language song and dance across the continent I thought well, could we invite some local natives here to share in the culture of this place in this place So vangar This is the Los Angeles Basin the Channel Islands the Tonga peoples have been caretakers of this place for millennia so there's the Gabriele Año tribe the Chumash to the north and The Fernanda Año tribe so today we have some members from the Fernanda Año to Tavian band of Mission Indians Rudy Ortega and Marc Villesignore and I'd like to pay my respect to the Tonga ancestors elders relatives and relations in my win-two language I say I an Issa. This is thank you and I'm wondering if you enjoyed me and saying who took rain. This is tongue before I see you We say who took right? And with that I hand the stage to you Occupy I'm in that time that the one Rudy Ortega junior Marc Villesignore at the one at the it um Tommy them. Hello everyone. My name is Rudy Ortega junior This is my cousin Marc Villesignore. We're happy to be here and join you I'm the travel president of the Fernanda Año the Tavian band of Mission Indians and Marc Villesignore is the vice president of our tribe and we want to sing two songs for you The first song is a welcome song the words are quite simple the word Baco means intern our language Kimma means come Essentially when we traditionally go travel from village to village We will welcome the villagers traveling to our village with that song we walk them into this area So we would like to begin with that song to welcome you into the conference Kimma Kimma Oh Occupy occupy. Thank you in our language occupy