 Hey everyone, it is Derek Weeks with the Linux Foundation. I'm the Chief Marketing Officer here, and I am here to give you your biweekly update on what's been going on within the Linux Foundation. So we've had a number of exciting things going on in the past couple of weeks that have kept us all really busy. So let's dive into them. So first of all, you might have heard that last week Meta transitioned the pie torch, transitioned pie torch to the Linux Foundation. It will now live within the pie torch foundation inside the LF, really exciting news that happened there. And I think that one of the primary reasons why pie torch moved was to give it a more neutral home than what it had at Meta and also make more resources available to it in the community for education, for training, for collaboration that the Linux Foundation can provide. If you didn't catch the news last week, read one of our blogs on the Linux Foundation site or read the blogs on the pie torch site and want to catch a little more, we actually have a live fireside chat coming up with Dr. Ibrahim Haddad. He's going to be the Executive Director of the pie torch foundation and one of my colleagues here at the LF but he's going to be having this chat with Smith Chintala who is one of the co-creators of pie torch and has been working on that project since the very beginning. So really exciting fireside chat that is coming up next week, I believe it's September 28th but check that out on linuxfoundation.org just go into our resources and webinars page and you'll see that there. Additionally, we launched a new training course pie torch and deep learning for decision makers. So if you're wondering what is pie torch, how can I be using it? It is a machine learning framework that is used by over 18,000 organizations now but if you want to learn a little more about the business impact of pie torch and what it could mean to your organization, definitely take a look at that training. It's online and free and available from linuxfoundation's training and certification business. I'll also say that you're really interested in the backstory of pie torch and Smith who's one of the co-creators of pie torch just released earlier this morning on all your major podcast channels, our latest version of the untold stories of open source features Smith and I was just listening to it having completed the whole episode maybe halfway through some great background on his history and kind of what led him from the earliest stages of childhood and his interest in computers through his maybe atypical progress through education and different universities and thought leaders that he had worked with in the industry before co-creating pie torch. So fascinating story, definitely worth tuning into that. Again, the untold stories of open source, just Google search and you'll find it on Spotify, Amazon, Audible and other channels there. So, and again, just released this morning on that. So what do we have next? Things that we introduced last week, the open wallet foundation we announced last week when we are all in Dublin at open source summit Europe. This is the intent to build the open wallet foundation. This will likely form officially later this year. But if you think about what open wallet's going to do and be focused on, think about what's in your wallet today, whether it's money, whether it's ID, whether it's health insurance cards, whether it might be the key to your new automobile, those types of things. How do we get them from your physical wallet to your phone or the thing that you carry around that can house that information? And the open wallet foundation is not going to determine or build any new standards. They're not going to build a wallet itself, but they're going to look at how do we collaborate across industry to build capabilities for anyone to build their technology or their data or their information into these wallets that can be more interoperable across any platform. So definitely stay tuned for that. If you're interested in learning more or getting involved in that, go to openwallet.foundation. You can learn more about the efforts there that we've announced. Now, as we were in Dublin, which is an awesome city, we all had a really good time exploring the temple bar area there among others and visiting the great restaurants, sampling the great food and beer that they have in the city. We also spent time announcing Linux Foundation Europe. So if you went to linuxfoundation.eu, you can visit our new site there, learn more about Linux Foundation Europe. The site is available in local languages. So we have English versions, German versions, French, Italian and Spanish versions of the site that you can access up at the top. Just click on the globe and you can view and read that site in your own local language. But kind of why did we pull together a Linux Foundation Europe in the first place? There are a lot of reasons from where open source is going in Europe, the investments that open source in Europe is getting in supporting billions and billions of dollars in innovation in the region, but also working with academic researchers and universities within the region, as well as government institutions that want to build more open source programs into their practices. One of the great examples that was revealed last week on stage in Dublin when we were talking about launching Linux Foundation Europe came from SAP. They were talking about at the very beginning of the COVID pandemic, the German government came to them and said, we really need help with contact tracing and developing programs that can help us manage all of these different kinds of efforts that we're trying to deal with during the pandemic. And the German government was reaching out to them for their development expertise. And as soon as they got into this and said, yes, we'll do anything to support this, they realized they needed certainly more than just SAP involved. And whether that was local governments or other businesses or healthcare, what have you to work on and collaborate on this, they also realized that efforts like that should not live within SAP, that they should be housed within the open source community. And so for a specific effort like that that was initiated by the German government involving German entities, it wouldn't make sense to say, if we want to open source an initiative like that to have it go and be housed at the Linux Foundation. While we're a global entity, a lot of people could say, well, that's kind of housing it outside of Europe or housing it in this global home. Why not have something closer to home and the Linux Foundation Europe now provides an opportunity for open source projects or initiatives like that to thrive within their own regions and be more specific to what's going on there. We did release our European Spotlight Report from LF Research as well last week. So again, go to linuxfoundation.org. We have a new website or newly designed. It's a lot easier to navigate, look in our research section and you can find it there. You can also find it on linuxfoundation.eu and it talks about open source practices and public and private sector. It talks about open source program offices. It talks about how open sources influencing billions of dollars in innovation across the region. So definitely worth checking that out there. Now moving forward, some couple other things coming up. We have Open3DCon coming up in mid October that's October 17th through 19th in Austin. They just introduced a metaverse track there within the conference. We have a couple of different speakers. Bryce Adelstein-Lelbach from NVIDIA is gonna be on the agenda as well as Deb Nicholson from the Python Software Foundation and of course our GM at Open3D Foundation, Royle O'Brien is going to be on the agenda there. So if you want to learn more about what's happening in the metaverse or what's happening in Open3D gaming and initiatives there with Open3D Engine and other projects under that foundation head to Austin in mid October. We also have in mid October or toward the end, October 24th through the 28th, I and others will be in Detroit, Michigan for KubeCon and CloudNativeCon North America. So always a spectacular show, thousands of attendees there in person as well as online. Keynotes for that are going to be announced shortly. I know hotels are in really short demand or I should say high demand, so they're hard to find but definitely sign up for KubeCon. We can see you there either in person or virtually. So I know we have our chat is open for any questions that are coming in from the community. So I'll take a look at those as they come into the chat. I see one particular question that has come in here. What will the Linux foundation in Europe to be doing to help open source in Europe? So I of course covered that a little before in this update but there are a lot of initiatives not only just in software but open hardware initiatives. You may be familiar with risk five that is initiated or run out of Switzerland within Europe. So open hardware initiatives around semiconductors and semiconductor architectures that risk five is leading open data and open standards initiatives that are very important to the region can also be housed out of Linux foundation Europe. We have a ton of different companies that have come in to be part of this that are based in Europe that have projects that they want to bring in and create new standards for data and governance across open source within the region. So definitely take a look at that. Let's see other questions. Let's see, does PyTorch, what is on the horizon for PyTorch and interoperability with other projects? So the best way to get an understanding of what's going on with PyTorch is to just dive into the project itself. PyTorch.org has loads of information, information, content, tutorials, videos, documentation online. They have I think about 10 introduction tutorial videos that are there that you can work through that were built by the PyTorch team and PyTorch community. So I would definitely start to dive in there. And also there's some great videos on the site of various use cases from anything from veterinary clinics helping pets to Amazon, improving shopping experiences to Dolby, improving sound in different environments. And you name it Tesla of course with self-driving car and a whole host of other use cases that are there described by the people that are using PyTorch within those environments. But as well as I mentioned earlier, we have a fireside chat with Ibrahim and submit next week on I think it's September 28th, check out our webinars page at linuxfoundation.org to find more there. It doesn't look like we have any other questions and we've been about 13 minutes in. So I'm gonna tune off or tune out for this week and end the stream, but definitely come back, subscribe, follow us more and certainly follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn and other social channels that you may follow for more updates on what's happening with the Linux Foundation. That's about it and I'll see you again in a few weeks. Bye.