 Good morning. My name is Raul Flamenco and I'm the founder of Capital Networks and Co-Organizer for Club Native San Salvador. I have with me today Mauricio Quevedo, who is also an organizer to share with us some of the experiences in Duen Comunities Community Day in El Salvador and also how the community came about, some of the things that we have learned. Mauricio. Hello everybody, welcome and thank you for coming here. Well, when you think about technology, probably you don't think about El Salvador, right? So this is something that we absolutely want to change and I want to tell you a little bit about our journey organizing the community here in El Salvador. So for starters, yeah, in El Salvador there are many things that we have to solve. Probably when we're talking about technology, of course, we are just a net receiver of technology and we have to learn and develop software for other countries. But let me tell you there are many good talents in this country that we can take advantage of. I have my company, we developed software for the US mainly and it's quite surprising when you see the level of talent that we have over here and this is something that we want to exploit in a good sense of the word, of course. And well, for this project we started this with a very broad idea that Raul Flamenco here brought to some of us and we started talking about the CNCF and the possibilities that we can develop through it and this is how we also made a team with Victor Morales from Mexico and who was a big support for or who is a big support of this project and we started as usual not knowing exactly what we were going to do, but we took an example of some other initiatives. We were taking a look to the website, we were looking and asking how some other countries did it and this is how we ended up having 18 volunteers. So we went to the local universities and happily we have some contacts and we have developed a network through the years with the universities in which we have been able to get their students to work for us and place them with other companies as well and the idea was that these volunteers were going to support initiatives that the social media strategy and they were going to be passing the boys in their own universities and so on and this actually turned a very powerful structure because well as you know this kind of initiatives cannot be done just by one or two people you need actually a team for doing this and at the same time this network of universities allow us to well to raise the work regarding CNCS so now we confidently can say that people in the universities know about the movement and at the same time we have sponsors and I will allow Raul to talk about them more in detail and of course all the support and all the tools that we have been receiving from CNCS let me tell you this it has been totally valuable for for this kind of initiative and I'm pretty sure you already have some experience regarding that that part so as a consequence of this effort we were able to develop the CUBE. Before that we actually had a couple of further meetings in which we were letting people know how CNCS works and at the same time to let them ask more about the opportunities and this ended with the CUBE come which we developed and in which we had 200 participants. It was quite an experience especially when the participants saw that we were going to have a lot of international guests in the event which turned out to be quite an amazing experience and let me tell you several of them have been totally impressed about the quality of what they saw some of them even asked if this is for real if it probably some of them thought that maybe that this wasn't a scam which we made sure to let them know that it was not but it was quite an experience because when you open this kind of opportunities you can actually can change minds and and this is something that we want to do as well with the project right you I'm pretty sure you have heard about all these immigration problems to other countries and I think what we are doing here contributes to avoid this kind of situations because at the end of the day what we need is to create opportunities and I think what we have seen from CNCF is quite amazing especially because it's about learning by doing right this is not like going and taking a class but actually putting your hands to work and I think this is completely different to another approach is that we might have seen here in the country and and this is something that I really love about about CNCF because this is something that we can use to change lives and and let me tell you this has a lot of value for for the country and of course there are many challenges with that we are still facing and and and there is now that QCOM is over of course we are going probably into the internships we are trying to move more interest towards them and we have found people who are already contributed to to the initiative here in El Salvador but they were like kind of isolated and they were not integrated in in a branch here in the country and and this is actually the afford that we have done so far and we want to continue doing it we know there are many things we have to face in the future and but for that part I'm going to allow Raul to to tell us about the future of our initiative here in El Salvador. Thank you so I think it will be appropriate to share with you how the idea came about during QCOM in North America and San Diego I noticed the participation were about 12,000 people and so the question was where the contributors are coming from and right away we were able to determine the majority were from North America, Europe and Asia so the next question was why not Latin America with 640 million people right and so after that started a conversation with Mauricio and also with Victor. Well Victor had more experience in working in the community open style so he noticed well in order to get to Kubernetes community day perhaps we need a community so why don't we just start a community so for everybody out there who's thinking about starting a community I'd like to also share that CNCF made it very easy for us to use Bebe which allow us to host the first three meetings prior to Kubernetes community day and so Victor took it upon himself to prepare the first presentations once were about Cloud Native 101 next about Kubernetes and then we had another presentation on service measures but after Kubernetes community day one of the things that we noticed is the priority had to be in terms of working with you know with the youth and so we started paying more attention to the opportunity to participate on the internships the most immediate one that we're working toward would be the one that is due on the 13th of these of as we record this this presentation and then the next one is going to start soon so two of the organizations that I have here very supportive of our efforts is Class Wing International there's an NGO in not only in El Salvador but in other countries as well in Central America where they offer they help with efforts in education the other one it is Superate, Superate has is working with those students that are in high school the commitment from the students is to to be part of the program during the school days at least three hours per day and so they concentrate on three things one is technology the other one is English and then in their bodies so we saw them as a natural partner to help us to get the message out so they continue continue to commit it to to this effort so as we move forward on this on this idea of getting more and more people connected to the to the global community some of the questions just like Mauricio mentioned is like some of the kids said number one we hear but this is hard right I mean the technologies are and also the idea of uh English right away but they say well but we're going to stick with it we're going to we want to participate so we see a commitment right away also they're trying to apply for the for the internships as well so I don't know if Mauricio wanted to share what actually happened the day the day of the event and how it was a structure perhaps you know um Mauricio wanted to share his experience you know what what he as a participant of Kubernetes community what what he what he noticed well you know it it was quite revealing as I mentioned we are always trying to identify good talent here in El Salvador and when the the event was over people were asking about the the the recordings right it was almost immediately we want we want to see the the the event again and and this was for sure something that we didn't expect we always uh well probably it's because we were having very low expectation regarding the attendance and and the response of the audience but they are really enthusiastic and I think this demonstrates the uh the need for for opening opportunities I think many people uh has this experience now that they can work remotely uh from El Salvador to the US as we are doing it and and they see this as a big opportunity in in that regard I would like to to to tell you I have spoken with a lot of young people over here and a common denominator is that they don't want to leave the country even though you are seeing this all news regarding the immigration when you talk to the real people in here they don't want to go and and they will prefer to have an opportunity and I think this is this is something that can bring these opportunities to them and and this is basically my conclusion what I saw when they when the event was over because sometimes you say okay it's over nothing is going to happen but in this case this was totally different yeah we're looking forward to build on what we have learned in terms of the community again the first goal was to do Kubernetes community but we came out of Kubernetes community with a community and so the community is is growing as well we have now over 250 members and so we see the level of interest but at the same time there is that element of you know hesitancy in terms of thinking is this for real right and so we need to continue working with local local partners in order to build that trust so now our goal our next goal is for those one two or three participants of the mentees to go through an internship to come back and then share the story I think that would be probably the most the most powerful I would say experience that we can share with the local community in terms of building you know an even stronger opportunity for for all those involved um I don't know if we have any any other information that we would like to share Mauricio please remind me of anything you want me to cover yeah you know I the main thing is to make the invitation you know in here there are people who are from all around uh please keep in mind uh you can inspire people right and and and we are willing to to hear from you for participating and suddenly given a uh a token or getting a gate with us uh Raul by how to mention this he lives in in California and he wants to give something back to to his country of origin and I think this is really valuable right to have people who go out of the country and they come back this is this is an example of people uh actually doing good things for for their own country and I think this this is uh something that we have to somehow emulate so the invitation is is here if you want to come and participate with us if you want to uh to give us a hand uh we will be really happy to to coordinate with you uh to try to to inspire more people through CNCF. Thank you and please one way to get in contact with us will be to visit cloud native since a lot uh look forward uh to uh to the next opportunity to do this in the physical world uh we have beautiful beaches um and so I we we we are eager to to make that happen right to be spending you know time at the beach and and get to know global community thank you for the time. Okay thank you very much take care everybody bye bye