 I'd like to invite Sean Raman and three special guests from the Linux Foundation, Open Infra and the OpenAir Interface Software Alliance to join us and share their thoughts on this announcement. Good morning, like you'll say it in San Francisco and it's my great pleasure to welcome you all. And oh boy, that was a great way for be able to start the day and tell us what we're doing at connectivity. And I welcome, first of all, thank you, Phil and I welcome Jonathan, Bryce, it's Executive Director at the Open Infra Foundation, Irfan Garri, Director of Operations at the OpenAir Interface Software Alliance, Arpit Joshipura, GF Networking and Edge at the Linux Foundation. So to join me on this virtual stage. Thank you, Sean. I'm here. Thank you, Sean. Yeah, very nice to meet you all and I'm very, I'm quite sure that our audience is waiting to hear from each of you. And it was great to hear how Yale articulated our mission to connect people and the importance of that and the announcement. That's so exciting for us. And I couldn't be more excited about MAGMA joining Linux Foundation as an independent project and how it opens up the next chapter in MAGMA's journey. We have seen significant traction over the past two years, since it was open source at the Mobile World Congress in 2019. And clearly it is no longer seen as a Facebook project. And this announcement sets us to the transition MAGMA into the perfect community project that we've always wanted to see it as. So I wanna take this opportunity to pretty much ask each of you if you could briefly share what you're excited about this announcement and why you see this collaborative effort around MAGMA going forward. Let's start with Jonathan. Sure, yeah, thanks, Sean. I think first of all, I just wanna start out by commending Facebook on making this move to really establish a true independent community around MAGMA as well as OAI, at the Open Infrastructure Foundation, we've had the opportunity to work with you, Sean Irfan over the last year or so as we've been kind of establishing some community governance principles and talking about licensing and all of these things that come into play. And it's been awesome to see the real level of commitment from all of the people who've been contributing to setting up a true community around this project. And I think that is so important if we really wanna achieve those kind of lofty aspirations that Yale was just talking about to really drive networking into more environments and more community. So it's a big step for a company to take when they have created a technology to sort of set it free and give it to the world. And I think it's awesome that that's happening. I wanna echo a little bit of what Yale talked about in terms of the impact that this can have. If we think about progress and technology, one of the sort of most common things that people often refer to to sort of capture the sort of that sense of progress and technology is Moore's law, the just rapid advance in computing power and the drop in cost and how that has led to incredible innovation in terms of computing everywhere from giant machines to desktops, to laptops, to phones, to IoT. And that's something that I think people in general are aware of. But I think that what's happened in the background that is just as impressive an advancement in the technology world is actually the capacity of networks globally. And really we've seen that in the last year with the pandemic as everything has moved online, our events have moved online, our entertainment, we get that online, all of our meetings and our work, we're all working every day remotely. And it's incredible to think about behind the scenes how much network capacity has had to increase over the last decade to support all of those use cases. But I think that one of the things that is true with that is that those advancements in networking capacity, networking availability, they have not been evenly distributed. One of the missions that we have at the Open Infrastructure Foundation is to more evenly distribute infrastructure technology to everyone in the world to make sure that everyone can benefit from technology advancements. And I think that that's what this opportunity right now represents for us with Magma. We can more evenly distribute those incredible advancements in the networking space to more people, to more use cases. And those advancements that I'm talking about, we all have benefited from them if we're living in major markets, major cities where we have access to these top tier providers. But as we just saw, not everyone has been able to benefit from that. Magma brings an opportunity for all of us to deliver these core network functions in a way that's easier, that's cheaper, that's smaller scale so that you can use it in more areas. And that is going to directly meet those goals of more evenly distributing that, allowing for more availability. And also I think one of the things that's really exciting to me, more innovation. When you make things smaller, cheaper and easier, that's when you just unleash massive innovation around a technology. So as I look at this, I think it's a huge step for Magma. I think it's a huge step for the networking space. And I think that we can't even imagine the downstream impacts that this is gonna have as we kind of start to push this forward and build a community. So really excited to continue working on this and continue our role and helping to kind of build a community, spread the message, bring in more developers and users. And for everyone who's here today, I say, join us, this is the time to get involved if you're not already and let's do this. Awesome. That's so great to hear, Jonathan. And thank you for appreciating what it brings to the table. And it's not many times you see different industry groups coming together to support a program. So I think we're in a pretty unique position to sort of truly disrupt that segment of the industry and we're gonna do it together. Next, over to Irfan. Open Air Interface Alliance and Software Alliance and Magma Projects. Magma Project, we go back quite some ways, like years that we've been working together. So this is just a great partnership and we just can be, I would say, more excited about the future in this partnership. And I wanna, I'd like to have Irfan share his thoughts on the same question, right? Thank you, Shah. Can you hear me? Loud and clear. Okay, great. Thank you so much. Yes, thank you, Shah. And thank you, Jonathan. You know, we, yes, we go a long way back and we are super excited over here to become part of, in fact, the founding member, one of the founding members of the Magma Project. It is, you know, those of you who are aware of how things have evolved over time, Open Air Interface Software Alliance has been working with Facebook connectivity for a long time, even before this project was actually called Magma. And over time, you know, our collaborations have intensified and we have done great work together here with a growing community. And you know, what I would really like to do over here is to thank our developers. So names that many of you already know, people like Lionel and Rafael and Mohit from the Open Air Interface Software Alliance. And on the other side over there in Magma, we have Shruti, we have Lash and some great leaders, like Amar, great technical leaders. So, you know, I think what we're doing over here is really incredible work jointly. And for our engineers, you know, one thing that I always like to say to my team is that this is just incredible. When you look at the tagline of the Magma Project and you hear or you read that the intention is or the ambition is to connect the next one billion people, it is just an incredible project. For engineers who always want to see their work, to get into products and solutions that are going to change people's lives, I think this is probably, you know, one of the best ambitions that one could work as an engineer for. So thanks again, you know, all our technical contributors. What I would like to say here is that, you know, we believe that the Magma Project will go a long way towards, of course, you know, changing the market, which is innovation, but also, you know, towards the changing lives of all the, I mean, all those who we are trying to address over here. I would like to address my congratulations to you guys who have managed to pull this off. This has not been easy to put it out in a neutral place. It has been a lot of hard work. And I know that people have probably spent sleepless nights trying to, you know, get this to work. So well done. And to our engineers and all the contributors, I think that the path that we are taking with Magma is that of greatness and it is a glorious purpose. So thanks a lot for that. And welcome on board everybody. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you, Irfan. Thank you. Once again, we just like to see the continued partnership between us and we're always grateful for your team support. And we look forward to seeing it in more rigor, more taking Magma to the next chapter here. All right. Over to Arpit. All right. So over to you, sir. And share with us. What's exciting to you and what do you think the collaboration means for Linux Foundation? All right. Thank you, Shah. Can you hear me? Yeah. Go on. Yeah, please. All right. So thanks again, Shah and Jonathan and Irfan. You know, we're very excited to be part of this global collaborative effort across, you know, as Irfan says, multiple foundations, multiple ecosystem players, you know, and the key here, you know, which I completely agree with Jonathan, which is, you know, our joint vision is fully aligned, right? We help end users and the community accelerate innovation using open source software. So when vision is aligned, you know, we can all come together to help developers push this technology where needed. So the key here is we've seen at the Linux Foundation, obviously, and all the foundations, right? We have seen open solutions across the entire networking stack. So, you know, from data plane to control plane, you know, to VIMs, orchestration, and then if you expand it from just core, core to edge, edge to access. And I think Magma provides that next evolution of the use cases across applications in my mind. You know, obviously packet core being the first one, but it will not stop at these VNFs and cloud-native network functions, you know, which we have been calling CNFs. So, you know, it's the entire end-to-end solution based on open source projects that are critical for getting to this global connectivity. So personally and on behalf of Linux Foundation, you know, we are very humbled to host this project on behalf of the community. Personally, I've been very impressed with the project. I've been following it for quite some time and obviously the technical leadership provided by Facebook and all the developers to support this project. From a moving forward perspective, we're expecting significant momentum and growth here, right? Through this neutral collaboration and governance, you know, a whole new set of end users, a whole new community of end operators, service providers, vendors, system integrators, right? You know, they are used to collaborating across the stack, across the foundations, across projects, and more importantly, across the use cases in this critical 5G era. And remember, I mean, connecting people globally is not a one-project challenge. It's an end-to-end challenge, right? Core, Edge, Access, Data Plane, Control Plane, Orchestration, Automation, and Network Functions, right? If you don't count the devices. So, we're really excited and thank you for the opportunity. Over to you, Shah. Thank you. Thank you, everyone, for sharing your insightful and inspiring perspectives. It's an honor to see the visionaries like yourself of the open source world welcoming a new entrant that has tremendous potential to impact the next generation of open source evolution. We see that evolution centered around the network and connectivity, and we often call it the open source 2.0. With that, let me thank you once again and move over to the presentation to see what that evolution might look like.